The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, October 30, 1883, Image 1

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I: ~* 'R-EKYEDITION- WINNSBOlRO. S. C.. OCTOR~Elt 30, 1883.ESABSl)14 THE VERDICT THE PEOPLE. BUY 'I HE BEST! MAR. J. 0. HIoAo-Dear Sir : I bougtt the ra Davis Alachine sold by you over five ) ears ago foi lay wi wil has given It a long and fair trial. I am well pleased with It. It never gives an rouble, and is as good1 as when f1irt bought,. J. W. 1ot.i0. Winnsboro, S. Cf., Apri, 1883. Mr. DMA: ilon wish to know what I have to say in regard to the Davis Maclino bought of you three ears ago. I feei I can't say too intch in its lavor made about "80,410 within five months, at Itii running it so fast tiat the needle would get per feetly hot from friction. I feel confilent I coulb not have done the Paie work with as iinmhI eaM and an well with alny other machine. No time los In adjustintg attaichmentRs. The lightest ruini mtachine I have ever treatihled. Brot her .Jaies and Willianis' falillies are as much pleased wit I their Davis Maclhiis 'ought 01 you. I want 110 bettel tachine. As I maid before, I don't think loc inuch can be said for the Davis Machine. RIespect fully, ELXN 'TXV ENSON, FaIrfilald County, April, 183. MR. BoAo : My i-icnine gives ine perrect Rails faction. I find no fault with it. The1 aittIianmenta ae so sHinple. I wish for no better than the D~avli Vertical Feed, Itempec-tfully. -i s. It. hi Iit.iNo. Fairliel0 county, April, 1883. MR. HoAO: I 0ougnt a 0iavis vertial Feed ewing MachIne from you four years ago. I am elighted with it. It never tas giveni ie any rouble, and has never been the least out of rtder It Is as good as when I iirst bought it. I cal ulheerfully recounmiend it. ItespLectfully, MRu.-. M. J. K inE I.As p. Monticello, A pril 30. 188:1. This is to certify that I have been using a luvis Vertilc.il Feed Sewing MachmI for over I v 'y% uS, purchased of Air. J. 0. HIoAg. I haven't funi i pv)sessed of any fault --all tihe attacheionts are so simple. It neverrefuses to work, and is certainly theiightest running in the market. I tousider it a first class macune. Very respect fully MIINNIIE Al. WIlMANtJoMAM. Oakland, Fairlieldi county. S. C. Mt BOAu: 1 aml) well plenaisf iII every partte-in witlh tihe Davis Machine liought of you. I tilux a lirst-clasi inacuhic In every respect. You know you sold several miachines of the Haie make t< diierent tuenibers of our fatnilies, all o whoiu, as far as I know, are well pleased witu them. Itespectful ,l1.Mliy Fairfield conuty, April, 13. Tli is at 'erliry we lave nat m lion i.iant use the Davis Machine bought of you a,ou ntree yeare ago. As we take in work, and have inaade int price of it several times over, we don't. want ay better machine. It is always ready todo any Sim. of work we have to do. No piukerlug or skippimi stitches. We can only say we are well piea.se, and wish no better mnachimne. i. ATHIRitNK WYMil AND iiHi1iAtE. April 25, 1883. I have no fault to Ant with my im:wch ne, and don't want any better. I have i te tue pric of it severa tines by iakimg i'm sewiug. I. is alvays ready to do Its work4 I ihink It a rst-class iia chine. I feel I can L say too Iunch for lie 1) IVt Vertical leed Machine. MlRs. TH11113As SMI-rn. FaIrtlebl county, April, 18:3. Mi. .1. 0. lIOAO---th),ar sir: it g1i'es ni Im ich pleasure it test i my to Ltne imierlit of I lie Davi Vor tical Feed ewing Muichni-. The in . lile I got o1 you ab.ut live years ago. has ieei almost li con stant use ever since that itime. I cannot see tha it is wvorn iiny, antd has hot cost mec one cent loi repairs sInce we iiave had it. Am well pleaisedl and dui't wish for any hetter. Yours truly, hmoUT. Cit t wPOiR , Granite Q.'arry, near Winnsbori s. C. We hive used the Duvis Vertical tFee I Sewing MachIne for the last live yeaIrs. We would nil nave any othier muaku at any prica. -lio macmimnc nas given us unboundlei satisfaci ion. Vecry resp~ectlfully, Mas. W. K. 'unean a A oi l)Aouiirians F~alrtleid conity, 8. U., Jan. 21, 1853. ilavimg bought a Davis Vertlcal l1eed Hewing Machiine from Mr. J. 0. iHoag some three year. ago, anil It navig given me perfect satisfaction ti every resp~ect aui a laimily imnacuine, bioth for hieaj and light a ewing, and never neemdeid Lihe least re pair ins any way, I can onteerfnuhy reco.nmmtenti it t .ny one as a first-class macin - in every pauicu lar, and thimnk It second to none. It is one of tin simplest machines made; my childiren tie It wIt: all ease. Th'le attacnents are more easily ad juisted and it doe. a greater range of work b, mneamns of its Vertical e'eed than any other ima chine I have ever seen or used. MBA. TH'OMtAs OwiNos. Wnsbaro, irrilhl county, 8. V. We have hadt one of f-le Davit Miacinies abou four years antI have always foundl It ready lo do a kinds of wora we have hail occasion to dho. Van' see that tihe mnachine is worn any, and wvorks a well its Whien new. Mas. W. .l. CKA wIroio, Jiackson's Creek, F'airieltI count y, S. U. My wire is highlly pleased with the D~avis Ma chine bought dl you. Site wouild not lake douibi what sne gave for It. The macnIne has no been out of ortder sinice she had it, and she can d any kinid of Work on it. Very Itespectfully, JAS. I". hi'ttsu. Monti'ello, 8'airfleid county, 8. C. Th'ie D~avls Sewinig Machline is simply ai trec t' Mils. J. A. IhOlpw vs. ftidgeway, N. C., Jan. 10, 1o8.. J, O BloAG, IEsq., Agent--Dear Sir: My wif has '.een usiug a Vavis Newing M~achmine constanat ly for the past font years, andl It lnas never neele any repatr an m works just as wcll as Whien fir: bought. She says It will do a greater range practi,,al work Rnd ido it easier and bet*.er thiu any macnine Bite uas ever usedi. WVe cheerfull recommend It as a No. I family mmnacthiie, t our tru..y, -A.Q irs WVlnnsboro, H. ('., Jan. 3, 1883. * ~ Ma. BOho: I have aiways found mny D~avls Mi chine ready do ala klinds of t 0Work I have had o stasion to do. I canntot see that the macfnne worn a partie antd It works as weid as wheti neti Mae. it. V. h0001iM. Wlnnsboro, 5. C., A pril, 1s883, Mia. BOAa: My wIfe has been constantly usimi tile DavIs MacnIne bonght of you about five yeal ago. I have never regretted buyig it, as it .i' aw a read for... an A d of fainl sewing, etith neav$ or 11~i R.Itis never out Of flx or neeuit Very respeotfully, A. W. laD, I'alrrild, B. C., Mareh, 1888 LxVVwa'M SWjNT UNs ROSE. No wind that blows can over harm Love's sweet red rose. The north windl will not it molest ., 'Tih south wind rocks it on its breast, And eust or west all things are best. Love's sweet red rose Front every wind recelves soo chtrn, Tals richer scent, or tint nmore wari, A nd fairer grows. No frost lovo's p ,lendid flower ean blightt, No cold nn kill. Its roots are far away fron harm, Deep in the I art all safe and warm Tho tender heart that has a charmn For every ill. And s.> the flower is oi linson bright, A nil sweetest. perfinie day anti night The roso leaves till. No storm that blows can hurt the rose The roso love plants. If skies be black and overcast, It bravely stands through rain and blast, And fairbr shows when storms are past. I The rose love, plants Through every tempest stronger grows, .in coldest, seasons sweetly blews And perfunie graitts. Then plant the finy erimson bloom Ofl love's sweet rose. If skIes are blue, it teomlipets lower, 'Twill sweeter be from hotur to houtr. Till life and lovo are but one flower That grows and grows Dcop In the heart's most tender glo -m, Till all is beauty and perfune With love's sweet rose. A MAN THAT SUOUEEDED -- "My only daugiter, sir," said Colo nel Monteagle. "And, as I venture to hope, accomplished in the way. We are not mitch in her way of schools or academies here, but I have beet her ( instructor myself and site is a thorough mathematician, an excellent musician, and a linguist of no niean capacity. I We are studyingI Hebrew now every day, she and 1, and she devotes herC evenings to eoiprelelisive reviews of I lher Latin and Greek. She will be a scholar, Sit, if I live to complete lher education. Mr. Crofton looked curiously at the oddly assorted pair--the silver haired, t shabbily attired old gentleman, with I his bald fore- head, eagle eye and deli- I cately white hands; and the dark i browed, sullen looking girl, with a ) gipsy skin, utintidy frock and patched il boots. Pretty? Yes, site might be pretty under some circuistances. The dia nitond itself is not an attractive stone t before the lapidary's art hasi polished its rude angles into glittering facets of I white fire. But she certainly possesses no sweet, feminine graces now. "llow old are you, Miss Molteagle?" lie asked, finding it imperatively nec cessary to say something. And Mary Monteagle answered in words, "seventeen "1 while her looks replied plainly, "N one of your busi less." 'Go, my child, tan1d gather soneI tiowers to deck ourhimble board," said the old gentleman magniloquently, while lie conducted the son of his old frieid into the tumble-down old stone house, where the carpets were moth eatenii, furniture mildewed, antd every trace of decayed gentility told the Had story of better days. Airs. Montelagle, who had been a beauty once, and had her portrait enl graed in a "'Gallery of Amnerican Rosebuds," was sitting up in state in a battered boudoir in a black silk dress that must have been quite a quarter of a ceniury old, with a flower in her sil ver sprinkled hair, and still preserving the girlish attitude in which the en graver's pencil had inunortalize1 h1er' oddly centrasting with the sharpened otutlines and hatggard abruptness of her sixty 0(dd years.4 And this was the way the old couple livedl in tihe (dead patst tas it weore, Colonel Monteagle starving cont entedly on the recollectioni of his past grandeur, and~ his wife fondly fancying that time stood still since the (lays in which she had beent counitedl worthy to be one of the "Amnericanl 1toseb1ud5."' Mrts. Monteagle sweetly welcomed her guest, anid touiched( the *ttle hand bell at her side. ''We will dine, Sarepta,"' sihe said to the maid. "'Please, ma'am,'' breathessluy uat tered that young p~ers~on, "'there ain't *not~hit' for dinner. We eat the last of the cold beef yesterday, and1( the dog lie tippled1 over the pan of oysters, and "That will do, Sareptat," said Mrs. *Monitoagle, withl a red spot mounting to each of her cheek bones "I said we will dinel"' And Sarepta withdirew with a jerk. The dinnter was served presenty-anl inistance of the nmagnetic power of Swill-but there *was no cold beef, nteither were there oysters. Fruit, a thin, watery sotup of herbs) and1( pars Iey, tastefully garnished salad of let tuce and mayonnaise, andi( a dish of' peaches and cream formed the tmeal. "Quite Arcadiani" saidi Mrs. Mont eagle, with a giggle. "And very badly served," secretly commented Mr. Crofton to hnnself. "liut the saiad was ntice," "W here?" is M ary the colonel asked. "Drinking ill the beatuties of the sun net, I presumle," the lady answered air ily. "Tme poor child has an tartist's soul, andi we do not tie her downt to any hours or rules.'' The coloniel fell asleep) in his chaIr aifter dinner, Mrs. Monteagle and hem' painited fan withdrew thiemselves into the boudoir, anid Mr. Crofton, inwardly t bewailing himself thlat lie lad prfomnised ,to .stay a week at Monteagie mnanor, vsaunltered1 out uponi tile heights which overlooked the vallecy below. As he stood thea.e a rustling sounded in the bushes and the dark browed gypsy sprantig upl the hlillside(. "You have ai line place here, Miss SMonteagle," lhe said, by way of nmaking .. himself agreeable. 'rhate it!" said Mary, darkly. "1-beg your pardonti" exciaimed Mr. (Crofton In amazemneet. I"I do!" flashed the girl; "IJ hate it Iall! The learnhng and the poverty, and " make-shifts." SI"Alh!" said Mary Monteagle, "you don't know it all. You never hoard I ,h rade-naon bowlng~a e bac loors like a pack dt howling wolves: tou don't know that thelhouse I advor ,ised for sale for tax arrears. lHow ihould you? How should you be aware I ,hat the very elothes we wear are not >aid for, nor the coals that cook our linmer? Papa smokes his cigars and alks about the Mexican war; and namnma poses i the great chilir and Ireanis of einbroidery work and ta lestry stitch; and I--I am expected to earn Arabicand SaIiscrift, and nobidy (iows what else, and ignore our ,vretched poverty. But. I can'tl Who :ould? Mr. Crorton looked pityingly at the 01rl's sparking eyes, ald pale, excitCt ace. "I am sorry to hear this," said he. 'Can nothing be done?" "Yes " said Miss Monteagle brus luely, "Something can be done-and I un doing it, in so far as I can. But >apa and mainnna must not, be allowed 'o Suspect it. I ai-learning a I rade!'" "You!" he echoed. "A tradel" "There's a factory near by here," the said. calmly. "Tie country girls a 'aril a little pocket lloley there sewing . )1 shirts. I Im to have a machine as I oon as I have learned to manage it. I I ,o every evening while papa fancles I < mi at the Greek and latin. to farmer ; elliam's whose wife teaches me the i IsO of the machine. I am learning i louse work, too. 1 1111de the layon- i aise for your salad today, and I baked I he bread. Our servant can1 do notlh ng of the sort. But it would kill naminma to think that I had stooped, is .sh1 would call it, to menial labor1."1 "You are quito right," said Mr. irofton.. "That Is what I wanted to know," aid Mary, hastily. "Because, living iere all by myself, in Such8-I a strange, mn Iatural at11osh)llere, I 801110t.im1eS get oifused, and scarcely know right -0111 wrong." "But they will have to know it "When I really go Into the factory," aid Mary. "Yes, I llow that. But litil then, I wottld fain spare them lie pang. I am to have a dollir a day, drs. llelliain says, it I operate tle nachine skilfully. And a dollar a day vill buy m1amnl1a alilny a little luxury, md go toward paying the grocer aid taker." "You are a noble girl," said Mr. 3rofton, warmly; and in his eye, at hat mnomieit, Mary Monteagle was ,lorilied with rare beauty, a1s she sto od here, the fresh wind blowing her jetty 1rls about, the rellection of orange unset deepening the color on her fleek, and the grave far away sparkle if her eyes half Veiletbelleath the long ashes. And if I could be of any as iistance to you iII this task-" "You can," said the girl, abruptly, 'you can stay here and amu11e papa so hat he shall not suspcect what occu111)is ny time. You can divert his attention rom Sanscrit and Arabic and all tLhese nysteries." ' And for the first time in his experi nee of her, Mary Monteagle laughed Imellow, birdlike laugh. "I1 will,"l said M r. Cr1oftonl hi-art-ily. And so the comp:et was sealed be WCe them. histead of t I e week lie had promise~td uis father to sidiL with old Col, nt..0.g... the .oj.urn. was extended t.. At the end of that period, 1he gravely xddressed himself to the dark-eyed laughter of the house. "How is tile trade?" said he. "I am1 to have a machine next, wt ok " iaid Mary, with the conIscious p~ridle'of >n14 who has colnqueredl fate; "and1( thten, inly think of it, Mr. Crofton, I hl 41arn aL dollar a day!' 81111 "'Mary,"' said( Mir. Croftoni seriou~sly, '1 have been thinking of aniotlher pla11 'r you. You tell me this farmer's vife hals made a1 first class housekeeper >f you." "I baked niice pies ye'sterda1y1" saidl ifary, exuiltdntly; "and I have qJuilted (jquilt and 1made1 soft 50oap, wvithmi the veek 1" "[I don't like the idea of your going ulto a factory,'' saht Mir. Crofton. 'Suppose now, by way of vahriety, you vere to-iiarry me(?'' ''But you are nlot ill love with ne!'' iaidl Mary, openling her bright, black yes. "Bujit I am1,"' salid Mr. Croftoni, with freat gravity. 1 havl e deliberately niade up miy mind that I can't be hapipy w'ithiout you. Anid allthiough don't >roifess to be0 a rich man11 1 believe I cana nake1( you a better allowanlce thani six 101llars IL week, wvhile at the same1( timle foul will not be compelled to work ten iour5 aL day for it. 'I'hiat is tile buisiniess ike viewv of the queIstion. N~ow to thle izore perISonal 0one. Don1't you think, klary, that, you could love mie? ilecaulse love you very 1much1 madeed'' "1---L dlon't, know,"wipreMay ' l might try." hiirelMr. Anid thlen she blushed chiarminigly. So Coloumiel Moiiteagle's daughlter N'ent to the fair1 -F.loridian phlantItion >ni tile shiores of tile river St,. Jolin, amid lstoniishedl every 0110 with her thiorouigh (lnowledlge of house-keepinag ini all it~s letails. And the two old peole1, with uheir burdenl of insolvency and1( care ifted off thleir lives, dIwell quietly on,. .1 the ancient, tower-like house, and~ ~alk to everybody wvho~ crosses their )athi of "thle excellent marriage whIch ny daughlter Mary hais conltracted." "A thorough scholar "~ 'ays Colonel Mionteaghe, with digity. "A multsi 31an. a linguist, a thorough flebrew itudenit, and a prolicient in Latin andb ireek. I m~iself was her instructor. Lt ia not sinigular that a girl of such intellectual power should arry wvell. " .Bi1t Colonel Montoeaglo, honest, man, lever dreamed that it was a sewing inachle and soft soap, the miayonanaise iressing, and the vehemient struggle to get free from debt, wichl conquered Mir. Croftoin's heart. Th'ley are p~lty )f scholars anid p)oetesses iln the world; tmnt a real womnanly womia-is not her rice far a'sove rubies? To give glass great brilhaney, wash witu a damp sponge dipped im spirits, hen dust with powdered blue or whiting (tied in a muslha bag) and poiisha with a shiamois ekma. 0 Unexplored A mka. A Sitka letter says; Although wo iNd realized tile distance we had trav 0ied to the northward by the incroasin eigth of the (lays, we wore astonishe mnough when we reached Sitka to till ill of our tine-pieces forty-live ininute thead of the local tine. For the lirti -ime we becante aware of the fact tua ur course had Verged west ward, ai ve puzzled Iot a little over tihe groa litference in time botweei Astoria ain itka. Although Sitka and Alaska air dihno-j synionyinous with thle nlorulh poll 0 avbrago minds in the toinporate zone L co)ilparison of nIIaa1ps shows tha sitka and St. Petersburg, Russia, ar n thp same latitudo, ali 'thle Inouth U 3hilfat river, the liost inortherly poln hat we visited, is on a line with ti outh coast of Greenland. The oxteni >f this northwe st territory and the vasi listances between points are miore thai mewildering. Alaska itself is equal it Lrea to all of the United States east o0 he Mississippi river. Counting til leutian cluiin, the Pribylolt groul ild the 1,100 islands of the Alexandel Irchl ipeilago, th0 total area 'of the Alas a ishlds is 31,205 sqilare uiles. Th4 sland of Attu, the last of the Aleuthu lain, is as far west of Sai .Franciset Ls Bangor, Me., is east of it, and th( Ildeited coast HIe of Alaska, incas iring over 25,000 miles, is even greatei ,111n the whole coast line of the A tila. .ic aLd Pacific shores of the Unite( 5tates put togutler. Southern Alaska is it is called, coinrises the inarrow' trip of territory that extenids south. vard fron Mount St. Elias to Dixor iannel, the boundry line betweei: Xlasika and Britisi Coluinbia. Tii. hirty-miile strip of lald, with it Out, ying islands, is the best kiiown part of lie territory, and with the exception (I )ijalaska nid thdi Seal islands, Is tie eat of ,ie only white seltlenientsx of my consequence or promise. )eist orests clothe the islands and mainland if Southern Alaska and "darken a re. ,ioin half as large as Europe. " Althougli he rocky fotiidations are only coverel vith a thin, sandy soil. vegetatio lourishes with a rankneis that canno( )e suriassed inl the tropies. Tihe clost orests of yellow cedar, Sit ka an Jouglass sipruce, Jeffrevys pinle anil( >iasai ii ir have iievor beeni devalstated )y tires, and for uniiniuinbeied ages oily htciers or avalainches haz1ve inturfered vitlh the steady process of iature. Til til5ins cleared a little ground abou heir settlements, but later inhabitant. ave nade no efforts inl that way, une crops cannot be raised with suc ess and there are not01enough horses ol attle for any one to direct their atten. ion to grasses that oarp.t be dried ir Ile constant. dowillidMfl'." The stum11p. )f trees will never rot in the ground u11d the fallen trunks in tile forest forn t network like the cornlers of rail fell ses, with each log covered with thici ilosses and grasses, and bearing a densi rrowth of rank ferns, bushes and sinal ,rees. It is wholly impossible to pone ,ate the forests without a path lirs iing lown through tile thickly rang< ,ree trunks, alkid inl tile wood path; tbout Sitka one freqiuently sees tree ,wo adil three feet ill liainoter, growinj iver the prostrate forms of pines o ven greater dimensions. If you stei iside fron the path to force your wal irough the indlrbrush to reach chis iAmi of ceiison amid, iwnaigt salinon-bhar ries you ilnaay suddelay be engulfed ani unk two or ten feet, into a pit-fall o no1y logs. Only tim ceitainty tih ,here are no snakes or creeping thing n Alaska encourages on to ventur Side fron tile narow a1 gr.avele >aths that benelleent, Ituss5ianI ruler, aulsedl to be inade about Sitka. Al hiough therei. are a few naZtulral ci~la lngs at tile miouiths of' ihe 5t1reninls, ai11 nissyV lieli cleared by tile toil of th< >idi ser'fs, no0 atteinplt is naaide to raisx Ir' keep cattle, andu the Inilk of th .hree cows of Sitkha is sold at eight ,eaits a quart. Withouit hieef or inut A)n, the pieople ive 011 aL routinie o2 ishi, venlison anid bear1 meaQt, anid i Illai-eater grow~s wear'ier of his dlatl IlxurIies thlan these Alaska cilti/ujs dl >f their regullar vensllion, sali in~i 1 lnlibult Inl steaks, roastS anId clurries. Eveni the .indians kniowt nothubmg o -he interior of Southlernl Alaska and onl accounlt of the ihnpene ,raible f'orests n ot, onelt lhand~ has beel whlolly explored. All traIvel is donle ir JoatIs anld cantoes, a110d thle two sectioi if tihe t~Orritor'y are as farl apart, fori' ,raveler' as if oin ditferent, continen5fta loroin~ Sithka to San1 Francisco, it is son11 l,6500 uiils by dlirect, lineO. ;Linl conimiul inail1 st~eainier Idahlo. From Sit~ka acrIoS Lo Onabaska thlere is IL voyage on LI >peni seL of 80)0 mniles, ati the Seal isInd~s lie hu~inreds of 11ni1es 'furlhe w~est, of thaIt 1poslt. UnlabiskaL al bLe seal ing statlionIs ha'/e con~lunnicatei w~ith 2i .Frlancisco by tihe $t~lamerl Ie loingin~g to thle. Ains5ka C~olimer5ia UumplIany, but,1 ilo direct, somilnuniicatioi witih Sitkai or t11he rest, of the terlritory3 Th'ie collector of cuistoms aLL Sitka get the4 repiort, fr'oml his Oilasi1ka dlelult via Sanu Fr'ancisco, Iunless aL rarl schooner or whaler come1s thalt, wayi und sailing vessels, as aL rule, give lii tort~lous chanelsI and14 uniknown reef )f the arichipelago IL wide berth at. al billes. N orthern'l Ahilska, .01r tile teruritoir prioper', (coniiprises vast, areas of iinex3 plored land(1, where event thme ad~lveniti rouis lIussianadll 1Iudsomn lay Coi pan~iy's traders have%~ 11everI set, loot.. N 51ur1veys of these0 great, SIleppeS, 11n0o1 tuul1 prairies hiave bween made11, with thI tSxcep)ion (It the SxploJrations ot thi 8Scientific corps1 sent, out, by the0 West urni UnIon Tehegraphl CJom~panly in 180 to reorI~t upon01 the4 leasibhilit3y of a csaI itcross Behlrinlg's Straits, Aiore thani fo geological surveys and11(I exptorationIs d the 1)eople4 cry for' 50ome forml of goveri Illnt, anld the establihment, of som1 deIilte lawv and order; for i Its prei emnt nieglected cotidition Alaska is territory in name)1. only3. Th'le collecte of customls at Sitka and14 hits two dep1)1 ties are the only civil olhtors veste with auathority, and their jurisdictio: only applies to T1reasury regul~ations 1a to linports, duties anid clearanice papr TheIi people have petitIoned for a gove: zior, for ioine judlical oldhers, or to hav a recognized delegate in Congenasan nothing has ever come of it. Man-of war government mity have done ver well for the few years suiceeding thi Russian transfer, but withink the Iss flive years Alaska has been devolpin1 industries adl slowly coming into 1 i promimience that demiatids some protoe t ion of law ald semblance of order. I 4 a trader is calught, selling liquor to thi Indians lie tust be Indicted and Lries by the courts at San Francisco. I convicted hie may be flled $500, meau while tihe expense of bringing the ne cuised and1 all the witnesses from Alask to San Francisco cost.,; the Govern ment three or four times as much a the line may amount to. As the Uni ted 5tates Attorney once remarked "They bring a ten cent Indian dowi to San Francisco alnd give himt a $1,00i trial, all for doing the territory a favoi by killing the worst; white mai In it.' It is only In extreme cases, however that prisoners and witnesses are treate( to at excursion to Sati Francisco al government expense, since the com. mander of the man of war is vestert with constabulary and all other kindt of power, and mnetes out justice b) direct and colmmon . senise method witlout the rigmarole qf the law. Thu diycovery of gold at Juneau, and tIe rapid growth of that mining town, Imake the want of government all tht more felt, anid the trouble coi'stant3L arising between tihe miners, and ti I ad ians, keeps the niun-of-war at Sitki )1IS' Itmaittthainiig the peace by whole, holtt examtples. Uwners of property at Jimttau cry for a surveyor atul a land oice tiore tlhWa for at police court, silice witl ut surveys of titles to thoi laids they heositate to put inoney intk works or miills that the fih-st, rgaLnizeti band of squatters iay demolish or takt from them. While this stat-e of pr feet lavlessness exists enLerprise is checked and operations are slowly con. ducltted, ,he great capitalists waitli uitil some protection is assured tu property and som form of government is given to this rich and undeveloped cout ry. now% l o naneo 15n.: Uropm. It has been asiserted by advanced ag riculturists that it wleat,, either spring or winter, is sown in drills far ntougl apart to admit of usilig a horse-sho betweei te rows, both to keep down weeds and loosen a'ld aerate the soill the yield might be inereasted to a mar v'elouls extent, iimore than, it now is inl the country. In proof of this a recen! observing antd intelligetit traveler ill lelgitum gives the mode ~of culturt there) and tihe yield, which sometime with very favorable weather for liar vest, reaches as high as I0 bushels pr acre. TIus is one of the most fertile, a prosperous and most; populious coun. tries in the world, supporting 481,71 persons to the square mile, against 13. - 92 inl the United States and 216.62 ii Germany. Winter wheat is a siapIc 3 crop there oi their high-priced small I farms of only an acre or two. Tle land - is highly mlanured in autumn, well har rowed several times, and got into tht I best possible contdition. The grain is a sowin in the fall in seed beds, very i thickly, on the highest atnd best loca, r tion1, where it is not, likely to be witI I ter-killed or injured by any casualLy, i such as overflowing or drowning out, oi r smothering under the snow. - In i th spring the main fields art - agai dre;ed up and nmrked out in I drills the proper distatnce. When tih f wheat has grownI sulliciently to bt t moved it is thinned oit, by being take: Sulp, separated from the thick stock. and planted in drills with a tool called I a dibble, wvhichi makes a hole the propem a depth, itnto which the roots tare lh.ser. - ted, pressitng thme earth tight, against - thienm with thte foot. Thtis work is its Iiiually inttusted to htalf-grownt boys and a girls, a mani sorting out t~he wvheat planits inl crier flatt those of thle iatmt Li size mat~y be placed together, and thai /' the fiel utnay grow oven altrd regular. - When the plants have comnmnenced f growing, the soil is thboroughly atnd .a contstant-ly st~irred, (3ithber by nmeanis o g' hiantd or htorse -powetr. Every weed atid all foreign ptints are destroyed, and I nothing but whtat is wanted, the arti cle itself, is allowed to grow. Thert f are ver~y seldoin any extenisive fatilures of crops thus carefutlly aiid seientilically -grownt. 'lThe yieldl is a quatitity ttievei iitainled or heard of' in tlhis country. attid thbe crop always antd surely pay, s thme (culttvator. S It, is as cried that, such paitns w~ouilti .11o. 1)ay) to aplply to (]ro). in this cuzi. t ry. Butt do we nmot got to~ the opp1osit, - extreinte? f1as it, ever been triedl here y It (certaintly would pay satisfactoury i: s applied to choice varieties in anmall l uanttities aboiut to be used for seed. I It, is certadiily belter to L,1I1 onto acre r. and1 get. a cr0op now raised otn fomi acres, thanut to) try thte four anda onii r aise halhf a cr01), wi ch is now so oltet -the calse lere. .1f~Montroities~ at, i nr. S Otto by Otte the ancient curiosities, o muionstrosities, of our catl1 yanuial fr'om~ the sight of a wotid. rinig public t< room for tmore modern monsters. 'lTh mion eurio'us of till l'aris enriosities wil eanse to exist, when the dlemolitioni of th CGrat H1otel Iiguay, known as"I l'able d'floto dtes Mo)ntres," is cem y plaited. Th'le htotel in itself Is like an: - cotmmon provlicial hotel, but the nuest - tof its tatble id'hote, as described by th .reporter, forman ass~femhbly htardly to b monit with itt any other place.. a "Dinner bieing anuounced," says tht a priveleged gutest, "the fIrst cotup3 t cueter the diing hall with anU air of 1)0r -feel proprit ty tire a boarded woman ao s conmpanied by a skeleton-like gentle e mtani. Shne receives is whispers wit] r thoughtful eyes, gently sitroking hte a beard, A dIwarf, with tin (3normious8 nose ' its naext to tem on a high stool; Ite e ineghbora are a wolf known showmnan -. whou now anti thon turns his facee roun< Sto the middle of his back--a conveme r whenever the waiter is wanted-and; -young giantess of sixten, weighing fou :1 hutndred ponns. Bomnambulists, acre ni bats and many more of the same schou as complete the oirele, who, after thel .meal is ended, will sometImes, for th -benefit of an occasional visitor, unite I: e a dance, fantastic, grotesque and hide ii onis to the last degree." Gulling thle Pelloan. The wilin niess 0t ni to reap the fruiiits of the labors pf others should d is pose hin to regard with interest if not with admiration the sane trait and its practical application in any of the mem bers of the lower orders of animals. It is true that he is not inclined to look with the same complacency on his beastly type ais on himself, and for this reason we 6lhid the Jackal universally scornod of mon. Nevertheless, there aire two qualities the exhibition of either one or both of which will at once com muand his applause. Tihese are wit and impudence*., Tho gull has both of these qualities, and exercises thon for its own benetilt at the expense of its fellows. HJoholL then a good reason for admiring ILI It is not at, all nice in its choiceof victims but practices its roguories with regard only to its own safety and profit. If the victiu be small, thou force alone is re' sorted to to obtain the coveted object which is always something to eat; if strong, then wit is brought into play; and if Stupid, then limpudence accom plishes the same result.. N or is the gull unaware seemingly of the ludicrousness of the part it so oltei plays of making others do the work it ought and can do itself, as may be seen in its dealiigs with the pelican. Tihe brown pelican, thoutngli its unm bers have been greatly lessene-dl, is siili plentifully found along the shores of the ulif of Mexico, and in Florida us pecially may be encountered w ithoit diliculty. It is indefatigable in two pursutits-first Ilshing thben eating. It is a ponderous, cluusy bird, With a body as large as a swan's but, with enormous wings which onable it to l1y with ease and power and almost with grace. The head, which is almost all bill, is not pretty, but, what is butter, it is eminently useful, for it comlinae, fish spear and luclh-basket in one. The upper part of the bill tenuminates in a hook Which is fatal to a 1ish1, aud the lower part isliiig with an elasItic pouncl into which the captured prey' ar, dopo. ited taitil desired for eating. As it has large webbed feet, aid swmims well, it, catches a great. many lish, jLAst as tle ducks (10; but it also lia a very picturesque way'uf capturing its linny prey. it sails majestically over the water at a considerable height above it, glancing sharply about for victims in Lhe tiansparent element, below, until, catching a glimpse of one favorably d.s posed for capkture, it launches itself straight downward, and with bill pro jecting and wings folded cleaves the air like a bolt, translixing the fish and by the iipetus of its fali disappearing tin der the water, to return to the surLace, however, with all tile buoyancy of a cork, and with the quarry comfortably tucked away for future reference, Having labored earnestly in tilns way uintil its polich is full, the pelican seeks a long lodge of rocks, and there in coin pany with his fellows takes i) his posi ion in solemn earnestness to enjoy the fruits of his toil. A skillful Loss of the iead shoots a fish from the reservoir in Lo the throat, ania gulp sends it on its way into tibe stonach. A little time for the pleasurable sensation of digestion, and again the head is tossed. And so the game is played with regularity by ,ie whole grotemqie iine. Thie long heads are sometimes turned about and rested on the shoulders pointing back ward, or more frequently are hold point ing vertically downward. Although a large and clumsy crea ture tie pelicani is not, nice.isarily stu pid; but by diiit of frequent tossing of tihe well-laden pouch it becomies at once gorgedl and dlull, anLd then is the goldleu opp~ortunity of the gull. l1e Impudent ly alights upioni the very head of the v'ictim, andl waits patiently unitil the pelican receives warn in g from wvithin thlat anothnr lish is wankt43d. tip goes the bill, upon gapes the thbe awful mnouitii, out shouts a doomed isi-nkot inito the ready throat,, however, but, into t~lbe waiting bill of .he guill, which has adl roitly twisted itsa head so that it, cani se all that, is exposedM of tile pelican's inter nal econioiny, amid has snatched the mor xei andi llowni with a wild screain of laughter to eat it, at its leisure, if in dteed a gull ever had such a state of be inmg. The pelican is alnost too stupid to know that it has beeni robbed, but, tihe gull gives every evidence of enjoying the rick very little lesa thani the booty, for itsa farewell shriek iSOunlds derisive enough for the evil one himself, it inighit be supposed that, 1,he pelicans w~old letarn wisdiomi ini the course of timie, bumt they do not, seem to have donie So) yet, for day after (lay along the corai reefs of the Florida coast may be seen long lines of gormandizing pelicanms oni Leitailiing gllis in this way. lThe IBIleanauj4. of a AJ~a GalId is not the only thing that glit tr. Mucu the greater part of the great sum total of daily shine Oemakuates irom substances decidedly more humble and more common. kiore is a list of r yesterday's small blessiugs. On waking to lie abed ten minutes longer. Tio be > able to put on big shoes instead of the i small ones of the p~revious night. I Pleasurable surprise at finding umu 3 breija not taken during breakfast. i Coimort of being at ollice in time to - read the paper and assume studious at r titude bezore S~mith gets dlown. Con s scusnoss that, Smiitht is late. Ditto that he is very late. Momentary thri a at throwing mucilage poet at organ grinder below window. tSelf- commen datory consciousness that Slmith has 'a J heaud on ham. Comfortable feeling all - over S3mit4's state and his resuing -idleniess. Much comfort in loafing be - cause Smilth does even less. Compia icency at refusing two coektails beaore r dinner. Comfort in a B. k B. taken ,with Smith and in benevolent recogni r tion of is state. Dmnner, amid in par ticular the cold apple pie with cheese, & hSelf-congratulationa that I have not got 3 to marry girl with frizzy hair engaged a to Jones. Comfort in thinking Jones r has got to maury her, Uomfortable nap - in ollice ohair while preserving appear I ance of work. ISatisfaction on hearing r S~mith say he has had two more drinks. a because myself have had none, Joy at a finding Mrs. Rodgers not at home, and leaving card, Tea, Novel, Cigar. Bed, The Velvet Per io. A couple of old roosters were standing smoking five-cent cigars, one evening when a young fellow passed along with a velvet coat on, and before he had got out of sight an old fellow of about sixty years passed the same place, and he had on a velvet coat. One of the two old roosters knocked the ashes off his cigar and then said: "it catches theni all sooner or later." "What do you mean?" asked the other. "Wlhy, the velvet coat period," said the first old rooster, as he took his cigar back, and puffed on it to keep it going, "Every man, some tine in his life, either as boy or man, sees a time when he thinks the world will cease to revolve on its axl9 if he does not have a velvet coat, and he is bound to have one if he has to steal the money to buy it. It il bad enough for a boy to have the period to come on, but it Is Ilinitely worse to escape it In youth and have it attack a man III niddlo life, but tt alWays hits them sometime. Now you wouldn't think to look at me, that I ever had the velvet coat fever, but I had it once in its most violent form. About twenty years ago, at the thne of the oil excitement, I maiue a little Ioney in oil and I got to tlhnking how I could show ho'w I was n ordlinary son of a man, and all at once it struck me that a velvet coat could do it for me, and I had a surveyor measure me, and had a velvet coat made, I was anxious to have it tone sa .1 could put it ol ani go around amiong the boys, but when it was done and brought home, I uli at once lost ily grip, and could hardly get il) couraige- to put it on. I let it lay for a wek, until imiy people got to making fun of ine about being afraid to wear it, and finally I put it on ant wore it down towu after dark. Only.a few people saw it, and I went home satisfied that the worst was over. What I wantud wis the coi ulilluity to get accitetl to It gradually. After awhile I wore it to ily olice on days - that I was going to be busy, so I know I wouldn't have to go aroun town. After the boys in the ofice got suo they coAkt witness iimy coat withont going bhiid a partition to laugh at ile, I concluded to wear it oil the street. Well, there was an organ grinder with a nonkey out on the sidnewalk when I went olit, and the beastly Italin had on an old velvet coat, like mine, only solled. The monkey Wis jumping around picking ip) penies, anit all it once he s9w me. I snail never for get the expression on that mionkey's fane. lie seemied to take ie for his master, and clearly realized that his imaster had pro. ourred a now coat withouit asking the coa sent of his little brother. There was a look of pain as thou4h the monkey felt hurt that such duplicity had betki practiced upon hi, and then the imionkey would look at the clothes i which he was dressed up, with contellpt, and then he would look at my coat with envy. I never felt so sorry for a monkey in all my life. I could stand it to hear strangers say, as I passed by, 'What blank fool Is tliat' but to see that poor noakey grieve over the sty'e I was pultting on was too much, and I re solved if ever I got that coat honie I would put it where it could never be seen again. The organ grinder becane alarmed at the actions of the monkey, ant jerked on the chain, causing the monkey to turn a back suimersault and the poor anhual came up standing in front of his master. He looked lit him, and seemed tone at once reassured and to feel that the apparition was only a horrid droatn, and thei he looked over his ahoulder to where I stood, to make sure, and there I was in all my glory. Then tile inonkoy was mad aud bcgan to m40" iul) faces at line, and I got out of there and went homiie, with shouts of the monkey's audience ringing In my ears, and i took off my coat and gave it to the timan that took care of niy horse, and I never see a yelvet coat, either on a boy or mani, but f think what a confounded fool I made of myself in myi Oscar Wilde days. It' you have a boy, teach him to go through the velvet coat period youmg, andt he Will thank his stars." Miurder' WiVl Out. TIhe deadi body of William Scott was fouiid lyIng along the track of the Erie Railway a mile this side of the Oloan Dlepot, abotut midnight on Tluesday the 25.ha. There were bad outs about the head, back, and abdomen. A Coroner's jury returned a verdict that 8eott had bean killed by the cars. On Th'ursday word was received trom a brother of the dead man that, he had dreamed on Tiueeday umght that his brother was nmeudered in a pilece of woods and robibedt. When the dreamer iwoke he was so nervous that he was unable to sleep again during the nutht. lie awoke froin his dIream between 11.t0 o'clock and~ midnight. On the samle dJay a sister of iicott's, who lives in Roch ester, sent word to a friendt in Ohoan that, she bad a dream TIucaiday night, ini which she saw two men beat her brother to (loath In the woods and~ take money from his pockets. Sheo awoke screaming, "loni't tuch the money! There Is blood on iul" Mhe says she was frlghtenied so that bile arose from bed and struck a light. A clock on the bureau showed the time to bie aui ttle pasi 11.30. These singular declarat~Ions led to bringing to hight the tact that on the day or Willin Scott's dheath lie hadl sold some pioperty, for which lie was paid $1*.000. In the afternoon lie was seen in an out of-the-way sloonl keps by a man named O'Mlara, in comnpanly with two strange niiein. Ho was iioxicated andl exhibited a large roll of money, and boasted of the bargini he had miade in the sale. Be tween 4 and 5 o'clock lie was so drunkc that the men carried him out to a barn in the rear of the saloon and left him there. About 11.30. o'clock that night lie was met by an acqlublutance onl the road lending from O'Mira's to the lurle dhepot, near a pliece of woods. Hie avas not seen alive again. Th'lere was no money in his clothes when found, It is noted now that there was no blood on the rails or anywhere about, the track at the spot where lie was found, and' raIlroad ni1en say it, would be next to an lInpossibilhty for a person to be hit lby an engime or run over there without the fact beIng discovered at once either by the engineer or fireman. The. belief Is strong now that seott was mur dered and robbedi and placed whore he was found to give the impression that be had been killed by the oars. Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward, and merit without mo~desty insolent. But modest merit has a dow. ble claim to acceptance.'