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* * . l r *too TRI"W EEKLY EDITION, WINNSBORO, S. (.. SEPTEMBER 27, 183VSALSE THE VERDICT --OF. TH E PEOPLE. BUY THE BEST! MA. J. O. BoAa-Dear Sir: I bought the tirst Davis Machine sold by you over five years ago for my wife who has given it a long and fair trial. I am well pleased with it. It never Rives any rouble, and In as good as when first bought. J. W. UOLIO. Winnsboro, S. C., Apri. 1888. Mr. BoAO: Z ou wish to know what, I have to say in regard to the Davis Machine bought, of you three year, ago. I feel I can't say too much in its favor. I made abouk $80,00 within five months, at times running it so fast that the needle would get per fectly hot trom friction. I feel confideni I could not have done the same work with as much ease and so well with any other machine. No time lost in adjusting attachments. The lightest running machine I have ever treadled. Brother James and Williams' families are as much pleased with their Davis Machines bought of you. I want no better machine. As I said before, I don't think too much can be said for the Davis Machine. lespectfully, BI.1.EN STEVENSON, Fairfield County, April, 1888. Ma. BoAO : My miclilne gives me perfect satis faction. I ilnd no fault with it. The attachments are so simple. I wish for no better than the Davis Vertical Feed. Respectfully. MRS. 11. MIL,LINO. Fairfeid county, Apri', 1883. Ma. BoAc: I bougnt a Davis Vertical Feed ewing Machine from you four years ago. I am elighted with it. It never has g,von me any rouble, and has never been the least out of order. It is as good as when I first bought it. I can cheerfully recommend It. ltespectfully, MIS. M. J. KIRKLAND. Monticello, April S0, 1883. This is to certify that I have been using a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machine or over tw a years, purchased of Mr. J. 0. Hoag. I haven't found I I pissessed of any fault-all the attachments are so simple. It never refuses to work, and is certainly th' lightest running in the aarket. I consider it a first class mnchine. Very respectfully MINNIE 1. WII.LINoHAM. Oaklanm. Fairfieli county, S. C. Mn BOAO: am wei picaset ir every particul wit h the Davis Machine nought of you. I think a irst-class machine in every respect. You knew you sold several machines of the same make to different members of our families, all of whom, as far as I know, are well pleased with them. tespectfully, Mis. M. II. MoBm.l. Fairfield county, April, 1883. This Is to cortity we have naa an constant use the Davis Machine bought of you about three years ago. As we take in work, and have made the price of it several times over, we don't want any better machine. It is always ready to do any kind of work we have to do. No puckering or skipping stitches. We can only say we are well pleased une wish no better machine. CATIERINE WYJ.IS AND SISTEit. April 25, 1888. I have no fault to and with my mach ne, and don't want any better. I have made the price of it severa times by taking in sewing. It is always ready to (10 its work. I think IC a first-class ma chine. I feel I can't say too much for the D.vls Vertical Feed Machine. MRS. TttMAs SMITH. Fairfield county, April, 1883. MR. J. O. boAO--),ar Sir: It gives me m ich pleasure "o testify to the merits o' the Davis Ver dical Feed Sewing Machine. The machlue t got of you about five years ago. has been almost in con. stant use ever since that lime. I cannot see that it is worn any, and has not col, me one cent for repairs s:nce we have had it. Am well pleasel anil don't wish for any better. Yonrs truly, hoaT. OnAwFioltD, Granlte Qiarry, necar Winansboro 8. C. \ie have usedl the Davis VertIcal Feed Sewing Machine for the lasi; five years. We would not have any ether make at any price. The maclino has given us unbumdec satisfaction. Vcry respectfully, Musi. WV. K. 'rlTUnNi AED DAUoHTErs FaIr ieldl county, S. C., Jan. 21, 1838. Havmng bought a Davis VertIcal Feed Sowing Machine from Mr. J. 0. Bioag some three years ago, and It having given me perfect satisfac.on In every resplect as a lamily machine, both for heavy and lIght sewving, and never ne'eded the least re pair in any way. I can clieerfu,'y recommend it to say 0o10 as a first-class machine in every particu lar, and th'nk it second to none. It is one of the sinmplest machines mlade; my chilah,en use it with all ease. 'The attachments are more easily ad justedl and it does a greater range of work by mieans of its Vertical Feed thana any other ima chine I have ever seen or used. MRs. TnOMAs OwiNOS. Winnsboro, Fairfield county, S. C. WVe have had one of the Davis MacnInes about fear year~s and have always found 10 readly to d1o all kinds of work we have had occasion to co. Can't see that the machine is worn any, and works as well as when new. Mas. W. J. CHAwFORD, Jackson's CreeLs, Fairfield county, 8. 0. My wife Is highly pleased with the D)avis Ma chIne bought Of you. She would niot lake double what she gave for it. The macehlne has not been out of order since she had it, and she can (10 ay kind of work on it. Very Itespectfully, JAs, F. FuEs, Monticello, Fairfield county, S. C. The Davis Sewing Macline Is slimply a freas tire Mns. J. A. (GooDwYN. ilidgeway, N. C., Jan. 10, 1683. J, 0 BoAG, Esq., Agent--DOiar Sir: My wife S has iaeen using a Davis Sewing Machine constant ~' ly (or the past four years, and ia has never needed say repais an.l works jumst as well as when first bought. She sys It will (10 a greater range of practical work and do a easie. andl better than any machino she has ever used,. We cheerfully recoilmndl it as a dAo. lifamily ianachine, Your tru.y, JS .DVS Winnsboro, 8. C., Jan. 8, 188. Mu. BoAo: I have always found mny Davis Ma ehine ready do all kiinds of to work I have hind oco eamion to do. I cannot see that the machine Is worn a particle and it works a weal as when new. Rtespectfully, Miss. IR. C. 00ooD18o. Winnsboro, 5. C., A pril, 1883, MR. B3OAo My wife has been constantly using the Davis Machinme bought of you about five yeara ago. I have never regretted buying it, as It is always ready for any ind of faml sowing, eiher ileavy or light. It is never out of fx or needing rePaIrs,Very respectfuilly, A. W. LADD, Fealelt, n. C. iKar,- 198$. A REVERIE. Ah me, 'tie not so long ago Since first I fondly hoped, and so All pleasures grew, and, with each throng, Came strains of summer's sweetest song, And darkness fell, scarce seen by me, And, though unknown, I strove to be So wise and good that men might say : "Around his brow dwells constant day." But now I daily older grow, And sadder, toe they tell me. so I watch the shadows 'mong the trees, And hear the sigh in evening's breeze; And weep tnat wisdom Is far off, And grieve that men at goodness scoff, And think, perhaps, the night may be Less dark than is each day to mne. Aud so, in sadness, still I wait, For soon I know, or maybe late, The gates will open wide for me, And I shall journey toward the sea, Whose breakers roar in every ear* Whose moaning song I ne'er shal{ fear, 'Whose saddest music oft has waked The memn'ry of a thirst unslaked. THE DOCTOU'S 8URIPRIE. The gas flared brightly in the drug room in the great city hospital of W- IDr. Wharton, one of the young physicians in charge, stood by the marble slab putting up a prescrip tion. Near him lounged idly, Dr. Fra zier, his colleague a dark, moustached young fellow, with a hard, intolerant cast of countenance, rendered more re phllant just now by an angry scowl. "Don't talk to me, Phil,,' he said. "There is a miserable poor outlook for either of us here. The poorest hod carrier that walks the streets has a bet ter chance for success than you or I even though we have M. D. attached to our names. You can brag of your profession if you like, but I am sick of it. I'll try something else before the year's out." "I haven't bragged of It," said Dr. Wharton good humoredly, "I have said nothing. You never gave ue a chance." "To think of how I've wasted my life," continued Frazier, without heed ing him. "Four years at college, two in a doctor's olice, two in a Philadel phia medical school. And here I am and here you are, men of twenty-four, glad to have a year's practice in a hos pital for our board, when my brother, two years younger, and without an edu cation, is making a handsome living speculating on the Stock Exchange. A great difference, truly." Philip Wharton made no reply, but ground away steadily at the mortar. "Do stop that screaki" said Frazier, Irritably. "Come out and have a smoke." "I haven't finished putting up this pre scription." -"ou't).vtur'.nam your, 'supper, either;" "No, but I shall ['nish the prescrip tion first." "You always stick at a thing until it is finished. You'll stick at your pro fession until it finishes you." "I hope not," said Wharton, laugh iRg. "What are you going to do when you leave the hospital? Our time will be up in September. Where are you going to settle?" "I don't know yet," said Philip, his cheerful face suddenly clouding. "I know of no place where there is much chance of success. My cousin John ad vises me to go West. But there are half a dozen doctors in every village out there already." "There," said George Frazier, tri. umphantly. "What did I say? There is absolutely no chance for a young doctor, unless lie.hasa fortune or friends to push him on. You and I have neither. We had better go out and p)reach this new cdre of fasting, We have every prospect of becoming good examples of its effects, whatever those may be," D)r. Wharton laughed, but made no rep)ly. Is face showed, however, that he lelt the truth of wvhat Frazier said. "You had better come to supper, Phil," Frazier added, in a more cheer ful tone. Having succeeded in making his companion feel miserable, his own spirits begani to revive. "No, 1imust put up thmis prescription first." "Very well. i'm going to cut my ward and take a stroli to-night." Hie sauntered out into the clear moon, light and fresh air. Dr. Whar tonl glanced after him, feeling as if lie. too, must escape from the nau seating smell of the drugs and the heavy, iw tid air of the sick wvards. But lie ground steadily at his powder. He was a homely littie man, whose only attractive trait was a happy, hearty buoyancy of heart, but that wvas gone now. When the prescription was made up in little papers, labelled and direct ed, he waShed his hands, put on his hat, and looking at his watch, walked quickly into the street. Half an hour was the time lie gave himself for meals, but to-night lie would use the hall' hour for something else thtan supper. Hie turned Into a quiet cross street, and In a few minutes reached a little book shop which wore a melancholy, watchful air, as if tired ef looking out for customers. Insie a young girl was perched on a high stool, writmng in a ledger. She had a round, merry face, which grew suddenly red as sihe looked up. "Oht, Philip?" she cried, jumping down and catching his hand with a nervous sob and laugh. "Such a good day as this has been! Mr. Nixon has not scolded sinice morning, and I have made two sales, and now you are come." "So 19ixon was scolding you, was Ite?" said P'hlip, his face darkening. "T he scoundrel. To think that you must submit to the tyranny of a ruulin like him, and I cani do nothing." "Hush!" Site glanced in terror at the half-open door. "He is at supper in the back roomu. Dont offend him Philip, or he would dischtarge me, and then what should I do? It is impossible for girls to get work in the city now, and I must live," "Yes, and you must earn your own living," he said bitterly. "If I were half a man I w uld have been able to marry before nowv. it's ton years since you promised to marry me, Susie. Do you remember? You wore a little freckled tot then, munch lug candy, and I a lubberly farm ioy. But I determined to make you my wife, and keep you from all trouble, though slow enough I've been about it." "You have done more than any other man over did!" cried Susie, hotly. "You have educated yourself-earned your profession-" "Profession! I'm beginning to think Frazier is right, and that I had better be a hod-carrier tnan a doctor. Then at least I would be sure of work and wages, but now,when I leave the hospital next month, where am I to go? It may be years before I can earn enough to keep us from starving, if we should marry." "N.ever mind!" said Susie, laughing, though her blue eyes were wet with tears. "What are years? We are very young, Philip." "Frazier is going to try something else." "And will you?" Wharton hesitated, and then that determined look came into his face which Susie knew so well. "No, I'll stick at it. I never have given up anything until I did it, and I'll not begin it nowl But you, you must help me to keep up heart, Susie," and with a long breath lie took both her hands in his. "Why, there's no rmason why we should give up heart," she said, with a cheerful tone. "Go now, there is Nixon coming. le does not like to see you here." "No," said Philip, "he is afraid he will lose his clerk. He'il not find another that he can grhid as much work from on starvation wages." .'Gol gol" She pushed him to the door still laughing, but when he was gone she laid her head on the ledger and sobbed. Susie was an orphan and had no friends in this world but the man who had loved her since she was a child. She had more courage and energy probably, than he, but the life of the girl in Nixon's shop was almost intol erable, and she was very lonely and tired. If Dr. Wharton was moody and des pairing the next day his patients did not know it. He had never been more gentle or untiring in his care of them. 'They were all poor, for the hospital was a city charity. But the more heavily his own trouble pressed on him the more tender to those wretched paupers lie grew. fiu was busied all the morning with one old countryman, who had fallen in the street from his horse, and been car ried in insensible. Dr. Frazier round him beside the old man's cot early in the afternoon. Frazier had been absent nearly all day. iia tan wm finhd and i -~ MOre burning with excitement. le beckoned Philip aside. "There's a chance. It's something big," he whispered excitedly. "Call Poor to take your ward this afternoon and come with me. lie's going to take mine." "I can't give up my ward to Poor. ie's a blunderer," said Wharton, gruilly. "You may if you choose." "'N.o need to snub me, Phil, when I'm trying to do you a service. You said the other day you had saved a couple of hundred dollars." "Yes, that's my capital to begin the world with in September." "Well, Frank-my brother, you know-has just had private informa tion of a great expected rise in the Dar ling Silver Mine stock. He'll let you and me into the chance. We'll go down with him to the Stock Exchange and buy up all the shares we can." "I can't leave my ward to Poor," he said. "There is no patient in danger but this man. But he i.s in avery cr1 tical condition. I won't leave him. "Nonsense? What can a couple of hours matteri Iit is a chance that may never come to you again. It's a dead. sure thing, I tell you." Wharton shook his head. 'Listen to reason, Phil. You may clear enough by this venture to make a beginning for a competency for years. You can atford then to wait for prac tice. You might even marry, if you can find a nice girl," he said, with a laugh. "Marry!" Dr. Wharton's hand shook, as he dropped the medicine into a spoon. "I would need time to consider the in vestment," lie said, "even if I could leave this mani. I would wish to be clear in my conscience that it would be a proper one to make. But the old man's condition is such that my present duty is clear." Hie sat down by the cot, watching the sick man. The p)ic ture of Susie at wvork In the miserable shop, with that brutal old 191ixon driv ing hier, rose before lum. She might have to bear this for years, and now that possibly he might help her, was he to give it up for this man-an utter stran ger to him. The clock ticked swiftly. Wharton's face was haggard. "Come!" Frazier said hurriedly. "I'll not go, Frazier" "Not go! You are n'ot going to lose your one chanice in life for that old pauper-that-old hawbuck?" nodding contemptuously towards the cot. "I'll not leave him." Dr. Jrrazler stooped over the old man and examined him. "Hie may lay In this way for days," he said. "It is likely you will find him just as he is when you come back." "Yes, but lie may change at any mo ment. The treatment .1 am trying is a new one. Poor knows nothing about it. "You'll not come, then?" said Fra zier, halting on his way to the door. Wharton had followed him a step or two, and did not reply for a momentE. Tihe closed eyelids of the withered old face on the pillow flickered, a sharp glance shot out from them. "1N1," he said, quietly. "I will stay with him. This Is no common work, and I will not leave It to Poor." Frazier went to the exchange, and by several ventures cleared several hun dred dollars. lie was greatly elated over his success. Dr. Wharton drudged along in his daily rounds among his pauper patients with no other reward than the old 'man's recovery. "You are ready for discharge to morrow," lie said to him one day when a fortnight had passed. a "Discharge, ehl That was a queer experiment you tried on me, young man. I've had some little experience in physic in my day, and I can't say I over saw the like Of that treatment." "No it was not the old method sir,'' said Wharton, respectfully, goilg on his rounds. When he came back his patient called out querulously: 'Where's the dollar and i half that was in my breeches pocket when I was brought in? Some thief hae robbed me." "You will find it with the Superin tendent." Oh, ayel I hope' .^ -nu anmi to be robbed, even b A; institution. I suppose the bill foi my kep here'll be hilih, young man?" 'lhere is no charge. It is a free hospital." "Sol sol" grumbled the old fellow to himself, turning over in bed. The next day he left the hospital, while Philip was at dinner, without a word of farewell. "So that is the end of it," thought the doctor. This one great struggle of his life had cost hin so much, that he could not understand how the man who had gained by it could be so indifferent. ".L wish lie had said good-bye, at least. But no matter." The next week the Superintendent tent for him. "Who is John Sands, doctor?" he asked, as sooni as Philip opened the door. "A poor old countryman who was in my ward. Discharged last Tues day." "Poor, indeed! It was Dr. Sands, as it turns out-Dr. Sands, of Schollsburg. The old man has had all the practice of that county for forty years, and has amassed a fortune, but he chooses to go about like a beggar. le was mis taken for one and brought in here, it seems. le encloses a check for a hun dred dollars, for the hospital, and says he doesn't chose to be indebted even to an institution." "Well done for Sands!" laughed Wharton. "le has done better than that,"said the Superintendent, with a twinkle in his eyes. "Sit down a minute, Whar ton. The old doctor, it seems, is feel ing his age, and wants to take some young man in as partner, to whom lie can leave his practice in a year or two, and he has fixed upon-upon-well, Wharton. he has fixed upon you!" "Mel" and Philip sprang to his feet. "You. Yes, I said you. You have made the old fellow your debtor in some way, by a favor, which he says lie can never repay. Besides, he says he and, above all, your inflexible devotion to your duty. There is his letter." Philip read it with eager eyes. "You see he says lhe wants you to come in September, and to bring a wife with you, if possible. A married man, he says, is always more successful. Ec centric old fellow, I fancy?" But Philip did not answer. le was buttoning his overcoat with tre ibling hands. "Excuse me," he said, but there is a friend to whom I must tell the good news," and in a moment more he was on his way to the book-shop and -Susie! Dr. Wharton is now the principal practitioner n Scholl county, and a happy, successful man. "I gained wife, tortune, all I have," he says, "simlply by sticking to one thing until it was finished." Dr. Frazier's success was but tempo rary. Hie risked all lie had oni one un lucky venture, and lost, lie is now a cjerk on a small salary in his brother's Unict,. A Crookory Bat. About 8 o'clock, a man smokinig p)lug tobacco in an old clay pipe, walked out of a Michigan avenue saloon, Detroit, with a rat in a trap). lie looked neither to the right or the left until he had reached the middle of the street. Then lie placed the trap on thle ground anld whistled for his dog. If lie had a dog, the animal did not respondi, but the public did. In less than two mniuites thirty men were rushing to the spot. "lii there! Don't let him out till I get my dog," shouted one. "Hold on! Wait for time dogs!" yelled half a dozen voices at once. "Keep cool and form a circle!" com manded a policeman, as he took a fir mer grIp of his baton. The man with the trap spread a large handkerchief over it and waited. He was not a bit excited. On the contrary he was as placid as a chip sailing in the wash-dish. "Whar' did ye ketch him11?" inquired a newsboy. Tihe placid man did not dei to replhy. "Whiat'll ye take fur him?" asked aniother, but his inquiry was treated with the same silent conitempt. Then four or flve men came runniing up with dogs under their arms and ton or fifteen dogs on foot followed behind. There was a ilght between, a bull-dog and a Newfoundland, and there would have been a row between owners had' not a second policeman appeared. Or der was finally restored. The dogs were arranged in a circle and held by their collars, anId the placid man slowly knocked the ashes from his pipe, looked carefully around, and thon raised the trap and shook the rat out. All the dogs made a rush, but inl ten seconds each and every canine walked off on his ear and seemed to be hurt in his feel lngs. A bo'y stepped forward and held the rat up to view. "it's a crockery ratl" he yelled as he whirled it around. "Yes, it vhas a grory radt, und lie cost me den cents!'' calmly replied the placid man as lie walked off with is trap. --There has been found among a Bedouin tribe east of thle Jordon, pieces of skin containing portions of Deutoro nomy and the commandments, made about 800 years before Christ, and the Br1i Museum is expected to pay a fauous sum for it. There is little doubt, among experts, as to its gen unnaas. Fanous Escapes From Indiana. "3tories of marvelous and ingenious escapes were the romance of the colonies, and such adventures date back to the earliest Indian war in Virginia,where a man and his wife, who had been spared in the wholesale slaughter, found their opportu nity to escape while the Indians were danc ing for joy over the acquisition of a white man's boat that bad drifted ashore. These captives got into a canoe, and soon after ward surprised their friends in the settle ments, who had believed them to be dead. Very like this was the escape of Anthony Bracket and his wife in Maine. They were left to follow on after their captors, who were eager to reach a plundering party_ in tune to share in tie spoil. Brack et's wife found a broken bark canoe, which she mended with a needle and thread; the whole family then put to sea in this rickety craft, and at length reached Black Point, where they got on board a vessel. A little lad of eleven years named Eames, taken in 'hilip's war, made his way thirty miles or more to the settlements. Two eons of the famous Hannah Bradley, previously mentioned, effected an ingenious escape, lying all the tirat day in a hollow log and using their provisions to make friendR with the dogs that had tracked Them. They journeyed in extreme peril and suffering for nine days, and one of them fell down with exhaustion just as they were entering a white settlement. A young girl in Massachusetts, after three weeks of cap - tivity, made a bridle of bark, and catch ing a horse, rode all night through the woods to Concord. Mrs. Dean, taken at Oyster River in 1604, was left, with her daughter, in charge of an old Indian while the rest finished their work of destruction. The old follow asked his prisoner what would cure a pain in his head. Bhe recom mended him to drink some rum taken from her house. This put him to sleep, and the woman and child got away. Another down-east captive, with the fitting name of Toogood, while his captor during an attack on a settlement was disentangling a piece of string with which to tie him, jerked the Indian's gun from under his arm and, leveling it at his head, got safely away. "Escaping captives endured extreme hardships. One Bard, taken In t'ennsyl vania, lived nine days on a few buds and four snakes. Mrs. Inglie, captured in the valley of Virginia, escaped in company with a German woman from a place far down the Ohio river. After narrowly avoiding discovery and recapture, they succeeded in ascending the south bank of the Ohio for some hundreds of miles. When within a few days' travel of settle ments, they were so reduced by famine that the German woman, enraged that she had been persuaded to desert the Indian flesh-pots, and crazed with hunger, made an unsuccessful attack on her companion mis of'ill he eschpes of New 'Rigland captives was that of Hannah Duston, Mary Neff, and a boy, Samuel Leonardson. These three were carried off, with many others, in 1407, in the attack on Haver hill, Mrs. Duston'i infant child having been killed by the Indians. When the captors had separated, the party to whom the two women and the boy were assigned encamped on an island in the Merrimac river. At midnight, the captives secured hatchets and killed ten Indians-two men, two women, and six children-one favorite boy, whom they meant to spare, and one badly wounded woman, escaping. After they had left the camp, the fugitives remembered that nobody in the settlements would believe, without evidence, that they had performed so redoubtable an action; they therefore returned and scalped the Indians, after which they scuttled all the canoes on the island but one, and in this escaped down the Merrimac, and finally reached Haverhill. This was such an ex ploit as made the actors immediately fa mous in that bloody time. The Massa chusetts General Court gave Mrs. Duston twenty-five pounds and granted half that amount to each of her companions. The story of their daring dccd was carried far to the southward, and Governor Nicholson, of Maryland, sent a valuable present to the escaped prisoners." Poison in the Teaeny. Among the many articles of comnmon family use that have become the subjects of cheap adulteration there is probably no one more conspicuous than tea. Poor and cheap teas are flavored and colored to re semble, in a faint degree, those of a better grade, while teas that have been once used and their strength entirely extracted are redried, recolored by the use of copperas and Prussian blue, and by the aid of a slight admixture of genuine tea arc palmed oOf on an unsuspecting public. Tihe fraud of sellkng tea that is entirely worthless is bad .enough, but when auf' decient of poison is added to the tasteless decoction to irritate and injure the stomach the evil becomes of sufficient magnitude to call for preventive measures of a vigorous kind. Just how this can be best accom plished is somewhat uncertain. teieable dealers of course refuse to handle the fraudulent and poisonous stuff. But ras cally dealers in the adulterated goods es tablish agencies, employ canvassers to go from house to house, and as they can af ford to sell these worthless goods cheaper than the family grocer can sell an honest article, they manage to deceive ignorant and well-meaning people and work off the poisonous and spurkous goods in large quantities. Beveral Btates, Pennsylvania included, have stringent laws against the sale of adul terated articles of food and drink, but the laws fall to provlde practical methods for detecting these adulterations and are thus insufficient. Congress passed an act at its last session to prevent the importation of adulterated and spurious teas and, as all teas arc imported, if the inspectors are effleient and watchful the evil should be checked so far as new importations of the worthless stuff is concerned. There is, however, a vast stock of the doctored herb already in this country and there are firms which follow the business of adulteration in some of our own cities. Against these two sources of supply the public must still continue to guard itself. The best method of doing this at present is not to be too anxious to get'cheap teas and to be sure that the tea dealer of whom the family purchases are made not only is honest, but knows what real tea is when he sees it. -Mr. Flood's San Francisco "house" will cost, it is given out, nearly $5, 000000 Glimpses of Alaska. Three sunny and beautiful days were spent ssiling through the enchanted islands, with steep mountain sides and bdld rocks reflected in clear waters, cascades dashing down between the pine trees, and lofty snow peaks taking on the delicate glow and flush of the late sunset light. The midnight skies had been dyed with the flames of the aurora, and the early sunrise was a dream of faint and misty coloring just before we rounded the point of a green island one morning and saw the town and totem poles of Fort Wrangoll before us. Next to Kodiak and Sitka, Wrangell is one of the oldest settle uuts in Alaska, and for eighty years has been a I great trading post along the coast. The Hudson Bay Company and the Russian Government had forts and stations here. and for a few years after the purchase of Alaska a garrison of United States troops was maintained at Fort Wrangell. As different counsels prevailed at head- 1 quarters, the troops were withdrawn and t then returned, and after a small fortune v bad been expended in this abandonment i and restoration of the military, the soldiers v took a final leave twelve years ago, and i the block house, stockade, and the log I quarters were given ever to picturesque- I ness and decay. As a point of departure for the (Jasiar s mines on the Stickeen river, Wrangell has r maintained its Importance even after the withdrawal of troops, and the miners and e prospectors of the gold region make it a v base of supplies in all seasons, and a place k for social hibernation when the snow and p ice drive them down from their mountain i retreats. A few trading stores btraggle e up the main street that runs parallel with a the beach. At one and this thoroughfare a is guarded by the stockade and sally-port b of the old fort, while at the other it gradu- a ally changes into a rambling Indian village, set with totem posts and fringed a along the water front with long cedar 8 canoes. The Indian houses front directly n on the beach, and behind them are the grass-grown ruins of the old Russian tort and its outlying graveyard. The houses are low and square, built of rough-hewn t cedar planks, with few attempts at paint tI and outer decorations besides the tall totems that guard the doorways of the a chiefs and the other great men. These P totems are the shrines and show places of k Wrangell, and the ordinary tourist can appreciate something of the great interest b that ethnologists have taken in them. A pair of especially fine totems were taken w from here in 1876 and sent to the Centen. nial Exposition, and since then they have I occupied a place in the greit hall of the Smithsonian 1 nstiute. P The totems of Wrangell are ancient and tl weather worn, spotted with moss and a lichens and bearing tufts of grass and v waving bushes in the crevices, and the d Id7 t1ihlidtifedyb' %.w f lit A7i'ift. b ening of the elements. The totems by the u doorways stand forty and sixty feet high; il carved from base to crown with huge, grotesque faces of men and animals, the bear, the whale, the wolf, and the raven standing as most prominent among the heraldic beasts that represent the great tl families of the Thlinkets, Each one of g these faces has a signifiace equivalent to a the quarteiings on the shield of a noble ii family, and a man's ancestors and able- il ances are to be read on is totem posts by ti all who run. The carving and painting a of the symbolic heads is a work of savage i skill, and the c.st of these poles is aston- V ishing even in this day of extravagance in a decorative art. The noble Thlinket must i first fell his tall cedars and set the artist to c work, and then comes the grand cere- t mony of crecting the posts before his a home. A feast is given of all the deli- u cacics the Alaska market can afford, and g potlach or gifts of blankets and calico e are given away so generously that the il totem party often costs as high as $1,000 1 and $2,000. A man's rank and riches are < considere.d greater the more he gives away, i and as the blanket Is the unit of value, his wealth and standing increases according as l he tears and dtistributes blankets on the occasion of his house-warming and pole-t raising parties. Totemns are also erected over the square-box houses in which they deposit, the ashes of their cremated dead, and the town abounds in picturesque litt,le tombs niched in between the houses of the living. B3urmnounted by a fox or a whale once painted In brilliant colors, but now toned down by the mosses, the ferns, trailers, and rank vegetation that rapidly cre.eps over and coiiceals everything in this moist, tenmperate climate, the houses of the dead are more picture'quo than those of the living. l'esr of the Dentist. Ten thousand dentists, whose thriving business attests badness of American teeth, meet with amusing adventurce when they encounter those who are suf fering from what Burns calls the "grim, mischiet-making chiel" that makes "man kind aft dance a reel." A reporter describes some of these experiences, as they were decribed to him by several dentists. "We encounter more that is ridicu lous in the extraction of teeth than in any other branch of the profession," said a dentist. "Why, I have had great strong men come Into my office with the intention of having a tooth extracted, and at t,he sight of the instrument actually turn and run, yes, run, as if the angel of death had end. denly appeared before them, "On the other hand I have seen frail looking little women come in, and without a word or look that would indicate any timidity, take a seat and undergo the oper ation with scarcely a sign of fear. "Men and women of large stature as a1 general rule, make more fuss than smaller men and women, and women exhibit less fear than men, "Sm very amusing inoidents occur1 dluring the practice of a dentist, For In. stance, not long since a prominent lawyer, being greatly annoyed by an aching tooth, decided to have it out; so, mustering up courage, ho went to a well-known dentist and told him he required his services. "The lawyer took the chair and the dentist got everything in readiness, when the lawyer spoke up and said, 'I am going I to faint.,' and he did. "Nevertheless, the tooth was extracted, I and the loss of blood bringing him to a consciouusnes, the dentist asked him if it was a comm'an thing for him to faint, and receiving an affirmative answer,'said that thie fat ef his fainting had removed the I necnssIty of his admimasterIng gas.'' 4 The Robber's Cave. Some of the quiet homes in and lround the village of North Tarrytown, ,a Westchester county New York, have )eeu disturbed in the last few months >y burglars, The property taken has iot been always of great value, but the osses nevertheless have been felt. The rillagers and the local polios have made fforts to find the criminals, but the earch has heretofore been fruitless. It iah especially pusled the police to con roture how the goods have been carried >ff without attracting the attention of he neighbors. Messrs. Thayer, Leg fett, Mason, and others whose homes iave been entered have been especially wdtive in seeking the thieyes. The in. ormation that had been sought in vain, iowever, by the constables and deputy her;ffs, was obtained on Monday, Aug. Oth, in an unexpected and romantic sanner by two citizens of North Tarry own. Mr. V an Tassel and a friend rero strolling through the t3aoha woods a the afternoon when their attention ras attracted by the mysterious move nents of a stranger at a little distance. hey could scarcely determine whether Le was deyeloping a recently-discovered old mine, searching for a mineral pring, sinking a well, or digging a last eating-place for himself, Their thoughts were rudely disturb-' d, however, by the mysterious being in rhose movements they were taking so eon an interest. The stranger, hap ening to see the two men, resented the itrusion, and seizing a rifle which lay onveniently near, suggested the advis bility of being left to the solitude he 3 much desired. Mr. Van Tassel and is friend not being at that time in an rgumentive mood, agreed to the propo tion of the genial stranger. They rolled in another direction until they )cured the aid of some of their towns ien, and then the party returned to the eighborhood where the digging arrior had been seen. The Ian had disappeared, but the inquisi ve villagers proceeded to examine the round in the vicinity, and they were )on rewarded by the discovery of a iece of natural scenery hitherto un aown to the oldest inhabitant. This as a cave 'vhich had been concealed 17 cards covered with earth so as not to e noticed from the path. The boards ere taken off and the acquisitive dispo tion of the stranger became manifest. [e had secured boots and shoes, cloth. g, and provisions enough for many cople's needs. The property which i1 stranger had taken such pains to 3quire and preserve was taken by the Illagers to the office of Justice Ken all, the local magistrate, where they welN#i~o~wid -IbiTy reoeive them nless the man with the rifle should put further claims for their possession. The Injudlelous Uso of Paris Ureen. Farmers should remoember, that its is a poison that is as dan erous to man an( animals as to in wcts, and that too great caution can. ot be observed in its use. And first, should be known that an almost in nitesimal amount, if eaten by an in 3ct, will cause death In a few hours. Yheu using the poison upon potatoes ines, or upon fruit trees, the aim lould be to make the green go over s much ground as it will effectually over. We have known of several pu ito fields being badly injured the pre ent season, by too free use of the dust pon the leaves. A leaf killed by the reen is as useless to the plant as one aten by the bug. We have generally l)pliced the poison dry, and mixed wvithi ery 11i10 plaster of paris of the rate of no part in wveighit to 100 parts of the 'laster, and then without making a cry heavy app)lication, the beetles have con thoroughly cleaned out. It is only eccessary to have the poison remain on lhe leaves two days to destroy ail that prtake of it. Later hiatchings masy equ ire subsequent applications. As lie mnsects are found uponL the tender et leaves, th ose which grewv last, there s no necessity for dusting over the vhole of a large lill of vines, but a ittle poison1 shaken into the central >ortioni of the stems will be quite as of ectutal. if 0on0 has a large field to reat, it will be weoll to cover the mou.th nd1( nose with a thin cloth' wvet in cold valer, wvhile doing the work, and spe ~ial caution should be taken against rotting a particle of the dust into alny lush wound or sores on tihe hands, feet >r face. The past season we have ap $icd the poison1 in water, through a mall sprinkler, which worked better han anything else previously tried. )ne teaspoonful of the pure green in we anid a-half to thlree gallons of wa or, was found sufficiently powerful to testroy all the weevils within two or hirce-days after tihe application. Hitr Dressing in Japan. The following details with regard o the halr-dressing of Japuase ladies nay be of finterest in these~ days, and nay help to elucidate muoh of the nystery which always surrounds the meaning of a Japanese picture. In 'apan a girl at the age of nine wears er hair tied up in a red scarf bound round tile back of her head; the fore icad is left bare, with the exception of couple of locks, one on each side. Vhen she is of a marriageable age she ;ombs her hair forward, and makes it ip into the shape of a fan or butterfly. mnd at the same time decorates it with ilver cord and balls of varied colors. L'his means everything, and Is fully mnderstood by the young men of Japan. L. widow who wishes for a second hus >and puts a tortoise-shell pin horizontal y at the back of her head and twists her iair around it, while an unconsolable vidow cuts her hair short and goes in or no adornment of any sort. These sat are very rare. By these simple neans much confusion is avoided. A lance around a ball-room suffices to eli the age and otatus of every lady in he place and a great deal might be aid for dire introduction of such a eus. omi into this country. -Banoroft, the historian, though 80 ears old, is reported as one of the best q~uestrians at tNewport,