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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNS1ORO. S. C.. WINJ31o.S (.OOEu 2. I88. w . L'"IA1 uTT1n1 THE VERDICT THE Pij EOPLE. BUY THE BEST! MRt. J. 0. IOAG -Dpear Sir: I bought the first Davis MachiAe Hold by you over Live years ago for iuly wife, who ias gon L a ng and fair tial. I 11n well pleaed with it. It never $tives any rouible, anid Isl as good as when Uit, biought. J. W. Isol.1CE. W innsiboro, 4. C., April M83. Mr. BOAo: 'You wish to know wiat I have to say in regard to the Davis Machine bought of you three years ago. I feel I can't say too mnuch In its favor. I inade about 180,100 within live nltoliths, at tilnes running it so fast that the needle would get per fectly hot front friction. I feel confiidei I could not have done tMe satue work with as nittlI ease uad ao well witi any other tiacilne. No tun lost in adjusting attachuells. Tlio lightest. runalig inachine I have ever treadled. BrotherJanies sit Willlanas' faintlies are as mnuch pleased wi i their Davis Machines bought or you. I want no better uaciane. As I salt before, I don't think too nuch can lie said for the Davis Machine. Itespectfuilly, KI.I.KN VTfv HNSON, Fairlild Couty, April, 18s8. Mi. floAo: My nitefitne gives wne perrect satis faction. I find n1o fault witli 11. The a1a1huents ate so nUple. I wish for no better hal the Davis Vertical Feeud. Respect filly. MNM4. it. )IIIJ.ANo. Fairlleld county, April, 1883. Mit. I1OAU: I botigit a flavis verfital FeedA ewing Machine froin you four years ago. I ain elighiteel with it. It never has given ifl any routle, and lias tever been the least out of order. It is as good as wiett I first bought, I. I can cheerfully recolfumenfial it. itespect fully, M is. M. J. KiniAND. Motliello, A pril 110, 1883. .T hIs is to cerfify that I hlave been uintig ft J)tsI5 VertIcal Fe(d Sewitug Machkfe for over I w a yen-s, purchased of Mr. .. O. Iloag. I haven't found I it paseede of any fault-all lie atfachnients are so s"in ple. It nevereftises to work, nid ia certainly the i ilitest ruinifig iII Lite iuarket. I consider it a first class nuactfine. Very respect fully MINNIM Q. Wif.LiANOUAM. Oakland, Fairlietil county. S. C. Mn IOAn: I ain weil pleasei in every partcut wili the D)avis Machine icought of you. I tifink a first-class inaciline in every respect. You know you sold several inachines of the sante make to diferent inunibers of our families, all of wfoni, as far as I know, are well pleased whil theiM. liceipectfully, Mus. M. If. Moni.Xv. Fairtlel county, A pril, 18M3. Tilts uito certity we nave nad in constant Ilse the Iavs Machine flought of you about tiree years ago. As we take in work, and have inaile the In ice of It sUveral lianos over, we don't. Want aly better muachine. It is always ready to do any kind of work we have to do. No puckering or skIpping slitches. We canl only say we are well pleasiel anl wish no better Iaciue, CATfnIINK WYLIN AND SisTmR. April 25, 1853, I have no fault to find with imy machine, and don't want any better. I have in.4de the price of It severa tines by taking In sewing. It Is always ready to do Its work. I think it a firsl-class ma clie. I feel I can , *ay too much for Itie D.tyvl Verlical Feed Machine. Mits. TuOstAS SMIrru. Fail field eontiy, A pril, 1883. MN. J. 0. lHoAu--Dear Sir: It gives Ie mI ich pleasure 10 testily to the merits of lte Davis Ver tical Feed Sewing MNachie. The fits' nine I got of you about five years ago. has eenic aimoni in cou siait use ever since thal II tue. I cainnot see that, it Is Worn any, and fias niot cost late one cent for repatra aince~ we have hadue it. Aiin well lelasedl ati dloi'!, wish ior aimy fletter. Yoturs trualy, lioTu. URfti/OnDi firanfite Qratrry, near Winsmboro N. C. We have used the D~aves Verlical tFed Sowing Machine for the last lIve years. We woul fnot hauve any oilher ake at amny price. Th'fe inahlts lhas given us unbiloundeii satisfact lln. Very respeei fully,. Mas. W. K. Tiuxman ASD) DAUorsus Fairilelil counety, 8. C., Jan. 21; 15s3. liavig bought a Davis Vertical reed Sewing Macino froin Mr. J. 0. hloug somne three ycars ago, antl it lhaviug glven ine perfect satlsfactmon In every respiect asa fainly inaclane, both for hea/y and lighft sewing, andi never needed the least re paIr in any way, 1 cain cheerfully reczoinanendl ilt to saty one as a fhrst-class msnahine in every particu lar, anad thinak It second to nonec. It is one of f le simupzest machaitnes inadoal; nay chliren use it with all ease. Thu at-tachmifents are muore easily ad juasteti andl it does a greater range of work by -ameamns of its Vertical l'eed thIfan say othaer a chine I hlave etver acoin or usedf. r Mns.lora iainia THiilAs OwINos. W~e hfave hadl one of tile Davis Macines about fotar years and have always foiffal if ready 10otdo all kinds of wvers we hlave hail oczcaaiona to iio. 'ana't, jj ~see tlhat life malclhine fs worn any, anfd works as fj Well as when nfew. III Mica. WV. J1. CUnAlwroia Jackson's Creek, lPatriloltd counaty, H. U. My wife Is Ighfly pleased with thfe Diavis Ma chine bought of you. hewonuld not lake double -what SheO gave for it. The machofinle hafs not been out, of order since she hadl It, and she can de tany kind of woric on it. Very ltespectfully, JA s. le. Fuss. Maonaticello, ueatrilold counfty, 8. C. 31Tlhe DavIs hhowing Macinle is simaply a treas tare- Mae. .1. A. Uooi,wvyN. itadgeway, N. C., Jan. 10, le83. J. 0 lioAO, Kauq., Agoent-D~ear Sir: My wife 9 ~~N has e,een usIn~g a Davis Sewig Maichline consst-t -' ly for tihe past four years, aind It hIas naever uneeded anay repairs afn i works just its well as when first bought. She says ft will do a greater ranage of pract Izal work e*nd do at enisler and bet'er thl any mfacfailf shl eus ever used. We chfeerfully reonfitenad it as a No. I famitly mlachfinle, Youar tru.y, JAs. Q. D)Avfs. Wifnnsboro. S. C., Janm. 3, 1883. Ms. IIOAG: I have always fofund nay Davis Ma. chinie ready do atli ktnds of Io work I have hadl -c 41 esion toduo, I cannot see that the maclane Ii worn a partiele iad at works as well as whfen fnew lteaipecttiy Mas. It. C. f000oofat. WVinnsboro, ii. C., A pri, 1883, Ms. iBoAo: My wIfe has been conistanitly usingi thei Davis Mach Ino bought of you autout uvo yeara atio. I havae never regretted buying it, as it ii always ready for say Alia of lana11y sewing, eite noavy or light, It is never out of lix or needful aepairs. Very resptecftaliy, A. '.. Lannm Fairfied, hi. C., March, 1883. WHEN MOONLIURT IEIGNS. Let's steal away when moonlight reigns, And Su uuner sleeps amid her flowtrs LeL'a steal away and wake tho strains That Love has naade for happy hours. 0, softly o'er the waters glide, The waters lit by silvery beams; But let the song float o'er the tide, And life flow on In golden dreatns. Across the stream I hear a swoll, A cheering song of youthful glen; Across the stream sweet voices tell The sacred hour of nelody. Then steal away, 0 happy hearts I While Night her richest mantle wears, And catch the strain her voieo Imparts, A nil leave to Tinto its flooting carea. Adele Fayton gave a vexed little toss of her head-a gesture intended to be awfully annihilating to Mr. Harry Brown, standing on the lower step of the piazza at the Seaside House. "Very well, go, of course,. Mr. Brown, if you prefer; but really, I think it is too bad of you." "Of course it is," added pretty Miss Hunter, with the golden locks and baby blue eyes that were considered irresist ible by the generality of the sterner sex. "Of course it is too bad, when you know that to a dozen ladies stoppinig at the Seaside there are only such a few gentlemen. I know what the trouble is, though, don't 1, Mr. Browne? You are tired of us-the same over and over -and you are reserving your forces un til tie much-talked of and anxiously expected beauty and heiress arrives upon the scene." Harry turned lazily round and smiled. "I an afraid I have to hicur a great risk in contradicting a lady," he said goodl hmnoredly. Baughty Adele Fayton flashed him a lialf-indignant, half sarcastic glance fromt her black eyes and said: "A nd when the heiress has arrived, I dare say Mr. Browne will suddenly lose all his interest in his solitary boat rides and tishing excursions, while we forlorn maidens get through the day as well as we cain, for lonesomeness. Mr. Browne, you are sellish.'" " Well, yes, rather, if always wanting the best of everything concerned is what you call selfish. But I will re deem imy character by proving to you that which Will doubtless set your hearts at rest. I don't believe in your wonderful coming beauty and heiress to begin with. And in the second place I would commit hari-kari before I'd marry an heiress. Now kinm I vindicat ed ?" He bowed and walked off, just a little to the discomiliture of the ladies on the piazza-vent off to the beat h where his boat and fishing tackle awaited him, with more of a disgusted, inipatient look, on his face than was customary with him. "What a lot of idiots a fellow comes across in the course of his lifel Because a lot of pretty girls lose their heads when a wealthy beat comes along, they argue, with a woman's senseless per sistency, that the men are as niercenary as theinselves. Marry an heiress, not if she were as beautiful as-as Venus, antd every word site dropped was traus nittted into a koh-i-noorl" Mr. Browne pushed oil in his surf boat, dashing and plunging through the breakers like a sailor, born and bred. lie rowed out a wile or two to another fishing boat containing a couple of barefooted boys eight and ten, with wide-rimmed liats, and bright, tanned faces and brown eyes. A tall lad of sixteen, worried and anxious looking, who wvas evideintly dismayed at the increasing swell of the sea, and the fresheiiing south wind, was of this company, and also a young girl wvith~ lo.vely dark gray eyes-grave anid thoughtful, yet bright and lashing as she lookedi at 11arry while lie rowed nearer aiid nearer in response to the hallo of tbe boys. A decidedly nice rookiig girl; hardly wvhat one could call hiandsomie, and yet thme pure, fair coiplexion, ever so light ly suintanined, the waving, (1001 gold colored hair, thickly braided and hang ing down to her waist, and the glorious gray eyes mde a whole that Iharry B1 rowne quito thoroughly admired as lhe pullled alongside anid spoke to lier. "You scent Lo be in somie dilliculty,"~ he remanrh'i., Louchting his hat courte ously. She bowed. "'Joe is rather demoralized, I think. Thtere is no danger, is thiere?" larry glanced at Joe's scared face, and the restless antics of the boys in the tiiny boat. '"if you had a muau ini charge who kntew his business, there would be no0 shaudow of (danger. As it is, this young mian hats no excuse for ventturing so far out." '"We were fishing," she said, in a pleasant, apologetic way, "aind I didn't realize how far we had gone. Well," with a troubled look that was more anxiety thman fear, "we muist doe the best we can. P'erhmaps yelu wouldl tell Jloe what to do with tile boat." hlarry rep~lied. "If you will allow mne to exchange places with your pilot, I will rowv you ashore, I am liarry Brownte, of-, brokers,--street, at piresenlt stopplinlg at the Seaside hiouise." "You are very kind, Mr. Browne, and I will thankfully accep~t your offer. Aly name is May 11arper." Sihe laughed as if the oddnes of the nmutual iintroduction amused hier, and liarry umade up his mnind~ that she was the very nicest girl lie had mnet in nmany a day. "'Well, then, Joe, you juimp in htere atnd row yourself to shore. Yout won't have any troutble to take yourself only, will you?" The alacrity .with which the lad changed fromt the "Bu~ll&" to the "Sa dlie" was'1l sutllcint answ5~er, and iteithier klatiy nor MI iss lirer could htelpsil-l ing as Joe put for thte shore. "I dare say lie thought It was all right," May said, apologetically. "hIe'dl no0 busiiess to think so, though. Shall I talke you straigljt back, Miss llarper, or would you rather fish a while longer?" "If you please, I will go back. Aunt Janie will be worried about me."' She leaned agraihst the side of' tha boat, trailing her hand in the water,. while the two children satquiotas mice, watching Harry with awe and admira tion as he pulled long, steady strokes that sent them spinning along, while Harry thought: "She is the most sensible girl I ever came across. Pretty, modest, digni fled, pleasant, with no sham reserve about her, any more than too much freedom. And what a thorough lady she is! I know it as well as if I had met her a thousand times. And May, sitting opposite hin watching the water as it danced and sparkled thought if ever there was a true gentleman ini manner, speech and action, it was this handsoue stranger who was rowing her to shore. "Will you teit me opposite to which hotel I am to row you?" he said, as, after a most delightful hour's conver sation, he rested oil h ai n m anu waited her cominixdis. She laughed. "Ol, no, not at any hotel. I am stopping at one of the fisberman's cot tages, about two miles . further down, on your left." Harry was delighted at the prospiect of continuing with her. "Yes, 1 know where you mean. The place we call Sandy Beach." "Yes; and you can't imagine how lovely it is thereo-old-fashioned, rather crowded quarters, to be sure, but with not the faintest vestige of anything like fun or style." "And you actually are boarding there, Miss Harper? Why didn't you conie to one of the hotels-tie Seaside for instance? It's a nice house, and pleasant company is there." May smiled. ".Not 1. I caine to the seashore to enjoy myself and get away from fashion and dress and tiresome people." "And you have succeeded in enjoy ing yourself at Sandy Beach?" "Admirably, these four weeks. You are the first devotee of the world that I have seen since I came here." Her dark gray eyes sparkled mis chievously as she gave a glance across at him.. "Is that really so? I hope, then, you will not condemn yourself to such iso lation any longer-at least from me. May I join in your solitary amusement, Miss Harper?" A faint flush crept softly over her rare pale face as she said: "I am not sure Will and Ben will agree to such an arrangement. They are iy inseparable companions in ram bles," and she looked at the two little lads. Harry gravely produced a handful of pelilies which he gave them. "NOw young gentlemen, V I wL you and Miss Harper on a l larifing excursion I know of to-morrow?" "I must make it conditional, then " said May, laughing. "Promise me you won't tell any one there is anybody down at Sandy Beach, will you? Occasionally lishing parties come to arrange with Uncle John-I call them Uncle John and Aunt Jane Jackson-horrible, isn't it?.-but I al ways contrive that no one sees me, for I am determined not to be drawn into society this Summer, if I can 11011) it, 1 don't want to see company.'' "But you don't regard me as con pany?" o," she replied, "I don't regard you as company." After that it, was all up with Harry Browne, and lie went back to the Sea side Itouse ackno wledging that lie was ill love at last, an'd with an unkniow obscure girl, who, doubtless for other reasons than her dislike for society, p~erhiaps for pecuniary reasonms, was stay ing at Sandy Beach. He liked her all thme better for it; he honored her good sense, and lie got over head and ears ini love. The next three weeks were the most blessed one~s lie ever had sptent ill his life, ie disgusted Adele Faytoni an~d 1hcr friends daily by his persistenit neg lect of' them, lie conitinued his soli tary - excur'sions-solitary till lie caine to Sandy Beach, where May was always readly to accomupanly him, or enitertaini him, or bewitch lhim, ntil 0one day lie told her lie lovell her dearly, and~ that It wIah the 0one wish of his life to ha~ve her for his wife. And May, with her soft eyes shaded with the tenderness of love and trust unspeakable, looked ini hiis hiandsoiie face and told himn she had loved him froml the mtomenit, he had rowed uip be sidle her that sumimer day. As lie took her in his~ ams anld lin pinited a lover's kiss on her red lips, and put his arm around her sim waist,, huis heart, gave great throbs of thaniks giving for this blesing on hium. Th'le ptiazza of thme Sea Side llouse was a bewilderinmg, brighlt scene, with the gaily-dlressed girls staidhig in earunest, con versationi as 11arry .Browne camne up to the house. Adele JFaytoii tossed( her pretty dark head saucily. "Tiherel Dl.idn't I say Mr. Browne would be oni hand to greet tihe heiress? You meon can't, withistanud such a gol den templltation. Mi. Biownie, sihe has arrived at last." "She? WVho?" Adele laulghed sarcastically. "Th'lere isnl't time least, use ini your pretenidinig you dlon't know what I meanam. Y oui kntow I miean the heiress." liarry smiled-a sort of pity comning over iml as lie remlembered how umuchm happier lie was tihan thebne whioshiould be0 mortuniate with this wonderful now coimer. "Y es, I really had1( forgotten. Ar rived, hasi Silo?" Bertha liunter went up tolim in her gus~hing mannier. "I prophesy you will be the very first, to go wvihld over her. Site Is just whtat 1 inmagine you will like. Groat dark gray eyecs and the goldenest hair; aiid so romantic; I wonder you niever camte across her ini your solitaury rambles. She has been staymtg dlownlat old Jack son's cottage ail summer; bult theni May Iharper always had curious tastes aiid ideas. At all events, she is lucre now, and I am dyinug to introduce you, Mr. Browne." lie stood confounded for a moment while lie tried to realize It. May, htis darlimg, the hetress whom lie had declared he 'puld rther couP mit suicide tha a rry?. May, in her cheap blue fiam * ts, ith no-gloyes or vail on her an or Tace, she the great heiress, wfiose uovjnents and sayings were chro oled in the 'daily' papers-whose drbs: were copied by less favored mortals, whose presence was as welcome as thi6 sunshine. "And she is pretty' too," Adele Far ton said, a little v nomogisly, as it IV were quite a shame; 1'I saw.her as she went to her room."' Harry glanced co ly up at t. array of faces and sai: "I am glad.:yow thi k May is pretty.' I think she is'ttie lo iest. girl livi . So you did not knoPs MAnag6J1. There followe tiin the merry chatter that Oloqueotly expressed the 111wblountued asLonishlment of Iharry's announcement. Madagaficur Onlirs A correspondent f om Madagasc: says: A'day or two p evious to my do parture from the Ca ital, I witnessed a review of one of thd crack regiments f the Ilova Army." Accompanying the reviewing General, a Prince of the blood royal, we fouild the battalion, aight hundred strong,PIrawn up in line :n a pleasant meadow. distant some bwo miles from the 4ity. Dressed in white and armed with Remingtons kept scrupulously cleim and in good rder, they looked a iot unserviceable body of men. Perfectly steady they were as we rode alonk the ranks, and lhey "presented arms'? and saluted the Prince with a precisidu and smartness bat betokened discijline and drill. Ten years ago a Sergejnt Lovett, from lie battery of British Artillery sta Lioned at Mauriti us, was engaged by the Rovas to drill this troop. Ile- did not remain long enough with them, nor perhaps had lie sulici at knowledge 0 Lactics himself to tra" n the army for tuovements in tne fiel on an extended icale. But minor drill they learnedc very thoroughly and the spirit of liscipline, and of implicit obedience to superior officers, seelts to have been ic(uired and maintaiped in a striking legree. Indeed, the 'sergeant was a very martinet, and frequently enforced :espect and prompt execution of his e )rders by the weight of his own arm. A, stentorian word of coimnd he also 1 possessed. and to this day it is the mnibition of all Hova oflicers to come .tp to his standard in that respect. f Jn taking up our position on a raised d platIorm in front of the troops, the d general in command, first: taking a ,ally as to reduce him for a short b .ime to a condition of collapse. A ,errible din ensued, every officer on the ground repeating the command at the opmost range of his voice; a half lozen illes in the centre of the lhe a itepped back a few paces and the band narched through tihe gap playing in iuick time as they approached us, "There is a Happy Land." After this i aite we had the manual, the platoon, md tile bayonet exercises of our own wervice, which were all done siartly 9 rid well, except that the officers who 1 rave out the commands had frequently 1 ;o be relieved, otherwise some of them I nust have succumbed to apoplexy. The t 'eginiemi advanced in line in good order. e Lt broke into column. It formed square, i foing through these evolutions , in i ighly creditable stylc. The akirmish- j ng was not so good. In this some three mindred speasrmnen co-operatedl, but i heir proceedinlgs, although striking j mud picturesqiue, wvere about as much idapted to real warfare as are the bat Llion movements so assidluously prac ,ised fromm year to year by En~iglish roops. After p~arade we had lunch, at wvhichi wines aind Eiiglishi beers were >roduced in profusion. But conversa ~ion was limited, most of the ohlicers iaving previously shouted themselves ocarse. Of troops such as i had seen, hle Ilovas possess some twelve thou lamd meon. Then there are as many nore armed with old1 muskets and pears, but drilled, and an untold host >f irregulars. Th'ie regulars have earned much of tile letter of F~uiropeanm irill, but as yet have failed1 to comnpre icend its spirit. Still, they could very 3asily, in hlands of a comlpetenit leader, acconme a sutliciently formidable force. Toois used in the P'yrarnuils. Durilg a residence of two wiliters ini 1, tomib ait &izehl, Mr. WV. M. Flinders L'etrie collected evidenice shlowinig thlat4 thie tools used in workilug btonie 4000. years ago were conistructeid with a lewel as the cutting edge. H~e stated lii reasonms for comning to this conclho din ini a papuitr readi befor~e the Anthro p~ological lustitute, a resume of which is pubishedl ini a recent issue0 of Enigin. sering of London. Solid and tubular tirills straight and circular disk saws,4 anld lathe tools were nmade with jewelis set iln metal. The lines of cutting on a gramlte core made by a tubular drill forum a uilformn (dept1h and width throum ghout,, showmlg that the cutting pointi, was not worn as the work advanced. The regular taper of the core would indicate that jewels wore also upon thme outside ain inlside' of tile dill, thlereb~y facilitating its remuoval, ill some10 specimenCs of granlito the drlills Sanlk to tenltih of ani inich at each revo iutioni, and~ thme pressure'Il& necessary to do this mulst have been1 fr01m 01ne to two tolns. Tile skill of the workmen an~d thle capacity of the tool are illuistrated by the cleani path through bothl soft ando hiardl material-no dilferenee i tile groove beinig per~epitiblei although it passes fromn a soft 81ubstone inito'quartz, sumbectinig the tool to ani enormou.s strainl. In lano surfaces 'the depth andl width of tile cuts indticate tile sutccessive st~roke of a saw, anid the use of the circullar sawv Is piroved by tile reg~uarly cum'edl lilnes. The forums of the tools were tile samie that expienlce has sanctionedl at the piresenit time. Th'le scarcity of the diamond and tile lack of strenlgth in thie sapphlire amnd beryl lead to tire comsideration of corundum. Nothinig has been found about the metal of which the tool was made or the method of settibag the jewel, ' in the btburbas. 1Q1 Mr. Splvkins, moving again?' 1116. you see Ine here amid tihe 4ebs of a once happy home," replied sp1vawtis. "But my wife called the dlnoe, so I grabbed the coal-scuttle and-swditgjIn for anotier cotillion with thefurnlttire van. The twins-and the canary bird are coming with the next ng in flats again?" asked t *ts are not lofty enough ki%. My wife grew ambitious. She wanted a pe in the suburbs, one of those fifteen-minute walks from the tn.)mi -wIss cottage, gable-ended cot ry Wansions, )vith every modern 0o , id'e-and lots of exp1e , whore we would be free from th dust and smoke of the city, have plenty of but ter and eggs fresh air and a goat for the children.;' "Oh, yes, we had sovekal; one wasn't Nlough." "How's that?" "Why, it was too exhausting upon ne to keep all the tre'es in the neigh borhood barked, eat up all the ohl boots, htoop1s-kirts and tramp down all Ae adjoining gardens, and not liking ;o show any partiality aimong neighbors, )r prejudice against th1is particular oat I got soveral to assist him." "And the butter -id eggs? You had Alenty, I suppose." "Plenty, yesl kept all the dogs in he neighborhood loan trying to suck hoem as fast as the ions laid them." "Did your hens lay so fast?" "Ol, no, not my henis-no, these vere the grocery man's lions-my lieis iad their hands fui a-setting. Why, . had one hien that sat for four weeks inder a barrel, in a tub of water. that evor laid an egg in her life. Aliother at on a screw-driver and a moukoy vrench in a horse trough for a fort ight, and so determined was she to lecome a mother that six roosters with ,pyck of worms couldn't tempt her to love. We filnally coinciudod it was Iieaper and more convenient to buy ggs than wait for another generation f chickens, so te grocery man was alled in. 'o really enjoy country fe and get health, pure air and lots oi mud, a man never wants to go beyond be suburbs. Ie must keep within earing of the street-car driver's whis le and the tihi-peddler's voice. lie lust carry home a market-basket very night, and occasionally a bundle f brooms and a ham; and then when e sits down on the back porch at eve, Atl a towel over his bald head to keel) lie mosquitoes off, lie will think with jndness unimaginable of those ton ollar-apiece roasting-ears and three ollar tonatoes that his wife and the ardoier are oir M)i rain i, ier, It 11is pu rse 1o0 8 MIT?. I:1av you ought your ticket to the Gymnasium at?" "Well, don't do it. Go and buy you place 'n the suburbs." lCug-Mahlug atMauiapore. The name ias doubtless become fain iar to all Americans within the past 3w years inl connection with its great ug and carpet industries, and there re not a few of our homes inwhich this 3rviceable and beautiful branch of ouse-furnishing has been- at all fol )wed where the Mirzapore rug is not ighly prized anti justly valued. The 3wn is bedutifully situated on the [uth bank of the Gatnges, in the.prov ice of Allahabad, but thirty miles be )w the ancient city of Benaros, and is irectly approached from Calcutta by journey of three hundred and fifty tiles on thme trunk line of the groat last .Indian Railway. Prior to thme oriod of the mutiny, when thme vast uternal commerce of the emplire wasI onilhned to its rivers, and the accuiu.* Aled products of its rich and yaried oil sought by NIature's course Is markets on the bosomn of the hanges, Mirzapore was one of the lar est inland trading towvns of Hindus an, a great indigo and cotton depot, ,nmd t Lbe residence of a considerable olony 01 opunlent Europeanm merchants and traders; but the adlvent of railroads la changed its character, and itsa ex ended reach on the Ganges' batik, once lie busy scene of commercial strife, is slimost deserted, andu in its stead clus ers of native habitations and iniferior hindhoo temp~les airo seen among the crowing trees. A fewv of the other sutropeanm residents-indigo growers, whose plantations lie in the surround ng district-retain their early residen Los or town bungalows and dispense .hei r proverbialrhositality to the tray uler;' butt wvith a sitigle exception-that >f Mr. llernhiardt llowvard, the father >f the Mirzapore c!arpet inidustry, hlcci lie hams festered for thirty years he European mercantile class is uin epresentted. TIheo truly Oriental beamuty mnd perfect qutahity of thne rugs soe tinch sought for and so highly valued n h~e Eurnopean and Ainnrican mair ateM, are ahuiost entirely (lute to the nlet energy, cortect taste andl kniowl udge of Oriental dlesignt of this gentle nani. To a p~ersont of taste, or the love 'f Easternt art,, what cani appear Jmore hiariangly aibsurd or ,ainfuh thanm a cold, tilf Eniglish patterni in a rug, pronul mently offi~ve, aund spoiling at, the mno timte its wealth of Orienital color? low many Turkish and Persian rugs re thus rutinmed; yet whaut a number ar~e eeni about us the result of careless )trchaswe or indli iteront, taste. lia the d irty lmud~ hunts of tibe villagers t is most interesting to observe the low yet regular growth of tihe beuautiful >atlerns tas devolpetd by thne butsy, unl ilring htands of a dozen or more haulf aked niatives, andu which the visitor ,races in imagination to their future ispulay lin the attractive windtows of~ ltegent Street or Broadway, and~ event tally to the chambers of Western tomes. As the namtive qutarter of the ~it y is apprl~oached tihe busy wool-cam lors, the spininmi~g of thie native wVomI um, tihe labyrinth of dlye-pots, the (lye ug yarnms of various colors inm the sunm ight, bespeak time mldustry of the place. i'he huts, of conmnon structure and mei material, nmud, contain but one mpartment. Sunik In thme -mumd to a lepthm of two or three feet Is a longer :oller of wvood, perhaps six Iiches in hineimter and three or four yards in selath. supmorted at eli.r amd by Irn rods aid movable at pleasure; upon this shaft the rug is rolled as the .work advances; attached to the roller and extending to the beams above are the close, strong threads of the wary,-, and In the rear, suspended froin ti ceiling, with haughi ids of a convenient distaice, itless ball of yarn of varied do shade; beneath these sit tIO na workmen and boys. Ini 161 Ito, at the front of the hut ,, Upon a mat, is Zhe pattern readei' or ovorseer, while upon the ground before him is the reversed pat tern of the rug whose manutfacture lie so skillfully directL; it requires the very closest attention, rapidity of thought sight and unflagging applioa tion on his part to keep the dozen or more men before - hum busy, for not a thread Is woven but at his direction or verbal order, as calling each workmren by name and noting his position, he orders the number and color of the yarns to be used, as hre traces th1em1 upon the pattern at his feet. The workmen in the rear seizes the end of the yari called, weaves the number or dered, the substance is driven home by air iron comb, the rough edges clipped and the rug rolls on to completion, every throad of wool and every stitch by hand. The western demand has so vastly increased as to treble the production within the past four or live yeairs, and there are now many thousands of peo ple, men, women and children, engaged inl the mranufacture of rugs alone at this contre. Yet when the slow progress of hand worlk is considered, and the fact that an ordinary drawing-rooi rug is the result of the united labor of three or four mn perhalps a week or more, the product is not alarming, nor is the cost of skilled labor, which coin inands in this particular branch from live to twenty cents per day. The ex tensive demand for eastern rugs arres ted the attention of the Indian Govern ment soine years since and suggested the expediency of profitably utilizing the convict labor and establishing the industry in the Central and Presidency jails. It would naturally appear un just and undignified for the General Governmeut of a country to thus enter the open market in coipetion with private capital. and it has since occa sioned no little connet; yet it is a question it this veuture has not im proved and advanced the art in the northwest, as the rugs manufactured at the Agra and Lahore jails command to-day higher prices than any other grade or make in India, the quality naturally being superior, the result of the slow skilled labor of long teri of life convicts. Indian Lo.ugqvity, "A few rods from the old nussion church of San Gabriel, in a hut made of bundles of the Lule reeds lashed to sycamore poles, as the San Gabriel In dians nade then a hundred years ago live two old Indian women, LauMr and Benjaina. Laura is 102 years old, Benijainia 117. The record of their bap tismns is still to be seen in the ohurci books; so there can be no dispute as to their age. It seems not at all incredible, however. If I had been told that Bert jamina was a three thousand year old Nile mummy resuscitated by some mysterious process, I should not have demurred much at the tale. The first time I saw them the two were eroucli ing over a Ure on the ground under a sort of booth porch in front of teir hovel. Laura was making a feint of grindiing acorn meal in a stonre bowl; Benjamnina was raking blhe ashes with her claw-like old finger, for hot coals to start the fire afresh; her skin wvas like air elephrant's, shrriveled, black, hrarngirng in folds and. welts ern her neck arid breast and bony arms; It was not like anything hrurman; her shirunkeut eyes, bright as heads, peered out from under thickets of coarse grizzled gray hair. Laura wvore a white cloth baind around her hread, tied on with a strip of scarlet ilarrnel; above that a tattered black shawl, wich gave her thre look of an aged unp. Old basketsr, old pots, old pans, old .sionne miortars and pestles, broken tiles arid bricks, rags, straw, boxes, legless chairs-in short, all con cei vable rubbishr-were strewn about or piled upon tire place, mrakirng tire weirdest .of backgrounds for tire aged crones' figures. Innsidle tire hut were two bedsteads arid a' few boxes, baskets and( nets; and drying grapes and peppers hunmg on tire wall. A few feet away was anrothrer lhut,, onrly a trifle better thran this; four generations wvere living in tire two. B~enjainta's stepdauighter, aged eighteen, was a fine creature. With a whiite batid straight aroumnd her forehead cloe to tire eyebrows andl a gay plaid hnand~korchrief thrownr oir above it falling squrarely each side of herfae, helooked like a l eoi shreik. "Our Mexican friend remnembered Launra its she wats lIfty years ago. Sho6 was their, even at fifty-two, celebrated as one of tire swiftest runnerrs anid best ballplayers ini all Sari Gabriel gamnes. Shre wars a suiger, too, ini tihe choir. Coaxig her rip err her feet, p~at. ting hrer shoulders, entreating arid carmes sing her as one wouldl a child hre sure ceedled in p~ersuading hrer to chant foi' ius the Lo)rd's Prayer and~ part of tire Litaniies, as sire had beenr wont to do it in tire old days. It, was a gr()otsque anrd incredible sight. Th'ie riore sire stir'red anrd saing anrd lifted her arms, tire loss alive sire looked. We asked thre sitep (laughter if thbey were hrapp~y arid wished to live. L~auging, aile repe~ated tire question to therm. 'Oh, yes, we wish to live forever,' they replied. They were greatly terrified ,thre dlaughrter saidh, when tire railwvay cars thirt rani through Sari Gabriel. They thought it was tihe dlevil briniging fire to burn upl tire wvorkl. Their chief solace is tobacco. TIo beg it,, Ienjainra will creep about in tihe village by thme hour, bent double over her stall, totterhng aL, every step. Thiey sit for tire mrost part silent, mnotiniess, oni tire grotnd~; their knrees dIrawn up, their hrandis clasped ever. them their heads suunk err their breast. fin my dirives in tire San Gabriel 'valley I often saw them sitting thus, as If they wore deadl. T1hre sight had anr indescribable uscination. It seemred that to be able to penetrate into tire recesses of their thoughts would be to lay hold up)on sacrets as old as tire earth." -A-NJL LJLJL-Jjw.J.j.L JLALOOF i1.)'tC Mobbing an Eagle's Eyrle. Sea eagles were formorly common in Shetland, but through trapping and shooting these noble birds are now near ly extinct on these northern isles. Within the last three years a pair has established an eyrie in the cleft of a great sandstone sea clifl, known as the Bard of Bressay, forming the southmost point of the island of Bressay, the island east of the mainland which landlocks Lerwiok harbor. On the east side the cliffs rise sheer out of the sea to a height of 400 or 500 feet; The depredations of the eagles on the farms upon Bressay and the adjacent mainland 'this yeir have been extensive, The - hungry eaglets required to be fed, and almost daily lambs were missed from the felds. To put a stop'to this plundering, a pro ject. was formed to rob the nest, and a daring young cragsinan-a leader in hazardous adyeutures-undortook to do so upon the firt .conveniont opportun ity. The risk was groat, for, besides the peril of the descent and the ascent, there was a chance of a fight with the parent birds. Thie oyrio could only be sool by the aid of a gla.ss froum the cliil on tle north side. A coisitorable way down the cliff is a largo protruding boss -something in the silpe of an oriol window, with a groat ltf t, in the middle of it. In this cleft, tile nest was built. The exact distance of the neAt dowu the clift was first ascertained. By means of a roel of thread, with a small weight at the end, the measurement was found to be fifteen fathoms, or about ninety feet. With two assistaits the c ragsuam very early one moriang shortly aftorwn rds. crossed the Soud of lBressay in a boat. The top of the "Bard" was attained about 3 o'clock. A stout oakon stake having been drivon irmnly into the grounud, through an '"eyo" at the top of it, ono end of a strong Manila two-inch rope was passed, 'Thie young climber (says the account in the OeVUnbans, from which this narrative is takoe) inaite this end securo round his body, while his assitaits grasped the ropo on tile other side of the "eye." He had taken offall .supei flunou clothing, and wore a pair of thin goloshes. In a belt round his waist he had a 6-chambered revolver. Over his shoulter Nvas slung his fishing baskot. Going over the brink of tile cliff he partially climbed down, so as to take the strain as nuch as possible oil the rope. When lie got to the -'pond," as tbe place where the eyrie is built is locally known, he found that fortuno had favored him in this-that neither of the old birds was at home; but at the same time he found that it would be a diffigult matter to get at the nest. Im mediatel.v above the hung the eyrie; so that the cragsman, suspended in the air on the same level as the nest, found himself still ten or twelve feet from it. He at once signaled to those above to be hauled up to this ledge; and, that having been done, ne cautiously climbed down its face, which had a shaip inward slope, until he got upon the same run of strata as that upon which the nest was built. By fol lowing an open seam just wide enough to admit his fingers he managed at last to scramble into the "pond," where probably human foot had never been set before. In the rocky chamber in which tie now found himself he could hardly stand upright; he therefore went round on his knees to the back of the nest. There were two pretty eaglets in the eyrie; and when they saw the strange intruder they buried their heads below the wooly lining of the nest, and re mainedl perfectly still. On lifting the eaglets out of the nest, though only a fortnight old, they were so large and well grown that only one would go into the fishing-basket. The crageman was considerin. how lie could get the other to the top of the clit, when a warning shout from above told him that cue of the old birds was approaching, It was the female bird, which apparently was determined to show light in defense of her young. She caime through the air straight for the cyrie, like a "flash of lightning;" and the cragaman had bare ly time to throw himself on his back into the deepest recess of the "pond," and to draw his revolver, when the infuria ted eagle was upon him, Shei made one tremendous and unsuccetsful s woop at him with talons and beak; and simul taneously he pulled the trigger of his revolver. The weapon, however, missed fire. Tne eagle hovered outside for a moment before renewing the attack; but a shot from the revolver-the report of which rerbaratedl among the rocks -effectually scalredl it to a distance of about 200 yards, where it continued to circle in the air-yelping like a dlog. 1t was by and by joinied b~y the imaile bird; but neither of tihe eagles again allowed light. The cragsman, havm ig deposited one eaglet in his fishing basket, took the other unaer his left arm, and having given the signal to his companions, swung himself out of tihe "pond,'' and was safely hauled up-his perilous ventu re successfully accompl lished. Bolh of tiue eaglets are still alive, and alogr to be thriving well in captivity. 'I'hey are fed three timesi a day on flesh and ilsth, and on this diet are coming into very beautiful plumag". Since the cyrie was robbed, it miay be meioneiid that the old eagles haye on more than one Occasion been soen, hovering over thme town of Ladrwick. This is the first time for twenty years that eagles have been cap~turedl alive in Shetland. A huge balloon was senut upl in Par-is receiitly,. wiche had several inmprove ments11 ini conis~ruction and eqhiuiment,. Thel chief one( is inmvenmtedI by thme C~out do Dihon. 1t conusists of' an outer cover ing of calico from w~Ihi a lonmg funneal of oiled silk extends downwiuards anid conniets wvithm a venmt~ilating machmino at tachetd to) the outside of thme car, which, by turnming a cranuk, senlds a bhist of' col ir out of tile funnmel anid undi~erneath the out 'ir layer. Thie objc~t of thuis is to place a layer of coIld air between the two coverings, wvhich shall preserve thme , gas In the balloon from being unduly Influenced by the rays of thme sumn. There are in busmiess three things necessary.-knowledgre, tamper and tima.