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*1* 9,eeme TRI- EE L Y DIT ON.W IN SBO O. S C. NO EMBE 83 - E TAB ISH '4 R F W E K L Y E D T I N . L N S......U. N O J:.E 6 i 8 .E T B I H D 1848. THE VERDIuT -O F THE PEOPLE. BUY THE BEST! MR. J. . BOAo-Dear Sir : I boug t t he orst iDavis adon old by you over ove years ao for mae iwho has given it i long antd fair trial. I amr wnell pleased with It. It never lgves any rouble, and Is as good as when firit fe ought. J. W., ljmor Winnsboro, S. w., Aipril 1u a. Mr. BoAo: 1 n w ish to know what I have to say in regard to the DavisMachine iought of oun thr years ago. I feel , can't say too much In its favor. nImade about 180,010 within five mnonths, at times running it ho fast that the needle would gt per fectly hot from friction. I feel conildent could not have done the Eaine work with as muitch ease and so well with anty other muachine. No time lost In adjusting attachimnts. Thle lightest runnintg machine I have ever treadled. BrotherJames and Williams' families are as much pleased with their Davis Machines )ought of you. I want no better machinie. As I siald before, I don't think too much can be said for the Davis Macnine. Respectfully, ELLEN bTEVENSON, Fairfield County, April, 1893. Ma. BoAO: My macnume gives me perrect satts faction. I find no fault with it. The attachuments a' e so simple. I wish for no better than the Davis Vertical Feed. Respei-tfully. M~.It. 5MiL.IINo. Fairfieid county, April, 1883. MR. BoAG: I 0oongnt a lavis Verilsal Feed ewing Machine from you four years ago. I an elighted with It. It never lies given) me any roile, and has never been the least out of order. It is as good is when I brat bought it. I can cheerfully recotimeni it. tespectfully, .Nai.. M. J. KIRKlAND. Monticello, ADril 30, 1883. This i to certify that I have been Using a Davis Vertical Feed S.ewmig M1achiine for over tw ' ye trs, purchased f Mr. J. U. ioag. I haven't found it p ussessed of any fault-ll the attachments are so sitmple. It neverrefuses to work, and is certaily th lightest running in tie market. I cousider it a firt class machine. Very respectfully MINNIE . WILINUoMAX. Oakland, Fairfield county. S. u. MR IJOAu: i am wel pieiasmi in every particul with the Davis lachine uought of yoU. I t1iink u first-caas-, macaltie in every respect. You know you sold several machines of the same make to dilerent members of our families, all of wliou, as far as I know, are well pleased with them. tespectfully, MARs. M. H. MOBiHY. Fairfield county, April, 1883. Tihis is to certrTy We ltave Ia 1l m onstanit use tite Davis %tachine iought of you about tiree years ego. As we take in work, and have made t11o paice of it several times over, we don't want a-my butter machine. It is always ready Lto danly Kind or work we nave to do. No puckeringor skippimg stitches. We can only say we are well pleaie. an.i.wish no better nachie, April 25, 1853. I have iio fault to AnM with nIy muacl;ie, and doai't want any belter. I have mide (toe price of ia severa times by taking in sewing. It is a] ways ready to do its work. I thimk it a tirai-olass mia chue. I feel I cant say too much for the D.tvts Vertical Feed Machine. MRS. TH'iiMaAs SI'i. Fairtiolid colty, April, 1883. MR. J. 0. tOAd-amar Sir: It g1ves me In ich pleasure to iestity to tiu merits of tie tavis Ver tic.al Feed Sewing Maclinr. 'T'he miaeijino I got of you about live years ago. has been almost in con x! aut use ever sinm thatI ime. I cannot see that it is worn any, and ha'l not cost ie one cent for repairs incei we have hadt it. Am well pleasedl ansi donl't wish for any better. Yours triuly, b oaT. Ua m WFOR D Granite Qtuarry, near Winnsboro 8. C. Wo have ulsedi the Davis Verticat Feed Sewltug Machine for tihe last live years. We would not have any other imake at any prlcs. Tihe maieainle has given us unboundeo satist action. very respectfu!!y, Mits. WV. K. T1URSNR AND DAcouTsas F'airlteld county, S. C.. Jan. 2?, 1898. uivinlg liougilt a Davis Yertical Feed Sewing Machine from Mr. J. 0. iloag some three years ago, and it having given me perfect, satisfaction in every respect asa amily macnine, both for hoa y anld light sewing, and never n&died the least re pair in any way, I can cheerfully recomnud it to any one as a tirat-ciass machine in every particu lar, and think it second to none. Itlls one of tite * simplest machines made; my children use it witth alt ease. TIhe attachments are miore easily ad justed and it doo-i a greater range of work by means of Its Vertical aFeed than any other sa chine I have ever seet or t.sed. MRS. TifOMAs OwlIsos. Wlnnsboro, Fairfield county, 8. C. We hlave hlad one of the Davis Machines about four years andi have always found It ready to do all kintds of work We~ have had~ occasion to do. Uan't, see that the machIne is wore any, and works as w ell as Whten new. Mas. W. J. CRtAwvoRD, Jackson's Creek. Fattnleid county, 8.'U. Mly wife is highly pleased with the D~avis Ma elaiue bought or you, She would not take doule wtnat sne gave for it. The machine has not been ont of order since she had it, and she can do un) kind 01 work oni it, Very itespectfully, JAS. F. Fitas, Montle:ello, liairleld county, 8. C. 'The DavIs Sewing MaclIne is simply a trses tra Mae. J. A, Gootaw vN. lialge way, N. t., Jan. 10. 1583t. J. Oi IloAo, Esq., Agent-Dear Sir: My wife has een u~sing a Davis Sowing Miachine coinstani, .ly for thle past four years, and it has ne:ver needed auy repairs an a works just as well as whenh first .b aught. Site Nays it ill do a gr('.,te. range of prac'tsaal work sand dlo it, easier an. oet'er than any macnine she nas ever used. #ue cheerfulty .reeoinmuend it as a No. I famIly imachame, Witnnsboro, S. ('., Jani. 3, 1883. Ma. Boso: I have ai ways foumnd my Davis 31a chtuu ready do all kinids of to work I have hia'l o0s .easlona to do. I cannot see that the inachlue is worn a particle anti It works as wedi as when no w. Itespectfimly, Mas. it. U. GiooDIao. Winnsboro, 8. C., A pril, 1883, Mat. Bo~o: My wife has been constanltly timing the Davis M.chino bought of yop about live years ago. I have never regretted buying it, as it is ai ways ready for any Aind of faily sewing, either hreavy or light. It Is never out 01 flax or heeding aepairs. .Very respectfully, Marc, 168. A. W. LApD, THE REST THAT FOLLOWS PAIN.' he night has come, anil the starlight Falls on the restless sea Like a gleam of hope through the darkness Of a weary doubt to me. [see the foam of the billow Flash like the shining rain, Then fall into silence and shadow, Like the rest that follows pain. D wonderful, beautiful billow, With your changing shadow and shine, Diasping the stars in your bosorn, I think your life is like mine. Like mine, reaching out through darkness From the restless, noaning sea, Pleading with ceaseless endeavor For a life that can never be. You clasp your mantle, 0 billow, With gems from the brow of night; I grasp, through shadowy future; Sweet atys of Heavenly light. Db, life of a ceaseless endeavor; Oh, wave of a troubled sea; Star of the weary-night, watch, leacon of faith to mae. 1 Iheavon, with dowers of promi-e; O earth, with I ravail and care; ouil of God's mighlty conception; Peace on tlh brow of despair. I stand by the surging ocean The starlight falls on the foam, Ad a feeling of rest coues o'er me, Like a wauderer nearing his huine. FATHER AND SON. The cell was low, and damp, and torbidding. Only a dim, deadened light stole in Ahrough the. grating of the door, just iuffliclent to reveal the scantiness of the rugged furniture, and throw a forbid ling shadow over the features of the loomed occupant. i He sat on a low bench, resting his Lemples on his palms, his head drooping between his knees. His hair was mhuch matted and tumbled, and bore itriking evidence of a night of unrest. Now and then his thick lips moved, As if they were trying to syllable words long forgotten. His dull eye rolled restlessly over the little circuit of floor within its range, bleared, red, and bloodshot. To fairly describe him, would be but to describe a monster. His countenance wore no expression so deeply stamped on its every linea ment, as that of brutality. As a darkening shadow occasionally threw itself down upon the floor, Lliminishing what little light was yet left him, he half lifted his head, turn ing his face toward the door. Presently the jailer himself passed. The criminal raised his form to its fullest extent on the seat. "Has Ie come yet?" he asked, spas modically, while his eyes glowed with An unearthly lustre. The jailer simply shook his head. The man relapsed again into his previous state of gloom and sullenness. "Oh, Godl This strange feeling! Oh, my boy, my boylI" These bitter ejaculations had been ,ut of his mouth but a few ninutes wheni a key rattled in the lock. He looked up suddenly, and the loor opened. "Hal hal" he exclaimed, throwing Lip his manacled hands, the chains clinking loudly in his ears. "You are herel My boy oh, my boy!" "My fatheri Do you love mne yet?" Phey embraced. Tne son's head lay on the neck of the guilty father, as quieti, as if it were reposing on the white bosom of innocence. Two others stood near, to witness this last agonizing interview, i'hey uttered not a word through it ill. Their lips were dumb. For several minutes not a word was spoken. The heavy breathing-half sobbjng 31 the father could be heard distinctly, as his capacious chest pressed convul iively against thtat of his stripling son. Th'le deep and long sighs of the latter almost drewv tears of compassion from ithe eyes that witnessedi his extreme1 rgony. - "L'ather," at last he said, in a very raint and child-like voice, his arms ibill wound tightly about the neck of Lisa parent, "d(ear father!" He hesitated. And tinally burst into tears. Tihe condemnedl parenmt cilung to him yet morie closely. '"Only say that I anm imuocentl"' 3roke3 forth tihe boy. "You are to (lie. L~o not die without, taking this great oad off.my shauldersi" T1henu the mon'ator' took his offspringi Dy the shouldi e, .d pushed him slowly inmd deliberat, I' back from im, as if I te wvere a nme a playthinig, gazmg sto idly into his Ia:e. Trho tears wvere rolling downi his eheeks, *and lisa whole expression was thato natntile supplication. "No-no, my boy," hte said, inm a whisper, thirt soundedl like the hiss of a reptile in that gloomy cell, '"you are intnocentl Tell the world that you are! They will believe you! Tell themi you are not guility I" "Shall I--miay I tell thorm, father, that you say I ant innocent? May I say this to themi, and then keep my niame clear from stain and taint as long as I Live?" 'A.Aod forbid thtat you should (10 a murder!'' exclaimed time father, thme victim of contending emotioni. "'If you have (lone this, at least, I suite-! WVhy do you complain then? "No, my boy''-anmd he piattedi his child's dli cate nieck with his groat, brawvny hand -'no, my boy, they will never believe that, you did this! flow can they? Who tells them that you (lid?" "But all will not~believe just as I tell them. Sorme wvill think that, I go thmroughil life with a lie Ont Lmy lips; and that Isent you to your grave. TIhey will p)oint at mne so cruelly, whlen I go through the streets. Th'ley will say, there goes the guilty one himnseltI 'lThere does the double murderer, lie killed )the'rs with iis hand1(. anid then swore away tile life of his own dear father! Oh, mly fathe~rl canl I boar this, and live? Can I carry such a fearful bur deni oni my shoulders all through life? No-no, fatiterl dlear father! Only free me from it all now. I shall neover see you again In this wvorld-never! Only let me recall this last meeting wit~h pleasure!" "WVell, and what would you htave me do, then?"'O deliberately questioned the parent. pel'emptibly givinig way a li feelings. "Tell me what you would ave me do, my boy! You shouldn't some here at such a time as this to heap mrses on my head-" "Oh, 1 don't, I don't! "You must remember that 'in the c >ne that's to stuffer; and I've just a (lay eft me to livel That's all! Now, what lo you Want me to do?" "Justice to me," sobbed the son. y "How, then?" y "Only say that I am not guilty of 1 Lhis crime!" "My sonl any dear boy!" exclaimed the hardened father, hugging his off ipring passionately to his breast, "you t :on't know how deep is my love fo il roul Oh, no-no, my dear boy[ I do t lot believe you did this dreadful mur- r ler! I can't believe it-one word of it s ill!" Another pressure in his arins. it 'Tell the world, my son, that your r rather never believed it! They will be j Ptilled then!" 1 . "But still the shatne and the shadow li >f this great guilt will hang over me," t returned the stricken boy. ".People t All say that either you or I did the a. leed. You deny that you did it, and l. )nly say that you do not believe that 'I [ did it. That is not enough. "No- ij 10, they will still fasten it upon mnel C [ cannot live under itl I shall not want it ;ol Only tell mne, father, that I (lid not i: lo this great crimel That is all! I "Thon I should confess that I knew who a lo it! "Can I say as much as that, for v iny one?" "But do you not know, father?" No answer. The old expression of brutality set- 1 led suddenly over his face. "Will you not say, father, that I am a unocent?" C "I believe you are, my son." a "Oh, father! fat her!" 11 "But is not that enough, in God's i iaine? My boy, you ask very hard c 'hings of ine. You are unreasonable." s "Then this load will never 'e lifted rom mel Oh, that I could thid sonie mie, who would be willing to share it s vith mie! It is too much-too mne1C!" j md lie wept bitterly on the necek of his ) .ruel and unfeeling father. I "My dear boy!" said the father, his "eelings seemina;g to assert their control d nonentarily again, "oh, do not take l )u this way! I don't believe you are I ruilt.yl Nobody believes it! Isn't Aat quite enough? Isn't it all I can ay? Oh, stop those tearsi My boy ny dear boy, I am going to die only f .or you. Never forget the father that U oved youl Never be ashamed to t ipeak of him; and tell every oine that L 1e died innocei.L! My dearest boy!"- C iand he pressed him Lo his bosom so f >assionately and long, that it seemed C is if lie would never cois!nt to loose c mis embrace aga:n. This melting scene lasted for soine 1ime. It drew to a close at length, iowever. The boy retired through the door, veeping and sobbing eon ulsively, his C 'ace covered with his hands. a - "I shall never see him againt never i againi" were the words on his lips, as S te went out." And lie will not say that I ant clear of guilt!" The criminal tiaally looked up from U he floor. dC6ine back I my son-my boy! Bring c aim back to mae once more!" cried he, 1 )eckoning fiercely for his child. '1 The father embraced him again, and V ret again. C The son waited for the syllables-the t ew syllables that should establish his V nnocence in the judgment of the vorld. His soul was rent with agony. But they cane not. The father raved like a mal man. awearing that his boy was his idol--hih larling-his all. .But nothing of his nnocence. Onily lbe believcd hiin innoy- C enit. Anid the seconid, and even the third ~ imo lie wvas taken away. 11is father lR ~ontinued to bog that he be brought mack again. .And finially lhe was gone 3 orever! Tihe one went omut into the world, vithi the fearful tatsk beforeo him of liv nig dlown a monstrous lie. And that ie begottena of the selfishness-and cow trdice of his fathier. The other wenat a ,o his (tooin like a brute-'cold, 'alhous, a uid unlforgivinag.' One still lives. A poor, pale boy, bowed with the &eight of his great grilefs. Th'le othaer has left behind limau I inmry that can conjure haorrorsa at anlyt iniet far direra than anay thait everi >r'oodedI in the brats of' demonis aid lends incearnaate. Curses rest on the gr-ave of thet 'athber; but- have' pity, onily tenader'est, a nity, ona the youang hear't, that- wall anever urgw~% lest agaian save ini Ieaventl not) versuU cold wVater. .Just at thla maomnat when cold -wti' nares, inilk cur'es, wh'ley cures, gr'ape mires, and the Kar'lsbaa of star'vaaain mrea, occup~y the att-ention of t-hose who >oe'haps ar-e in gr'eat a mnelaure per'soan diy r'esponasible foar wanlinag anay curae at, di, a new onae hais spr'auag up in Amae-. cai, aand haas already found followers ina I'nigland. T[he dirinkinag of hot, water svats an old-faishiloned paractice amnag >ersonas with imnpair-ed digestive organas. L1ot water' as a cosmietic has grecatly ad ranced in favor duiniag the p~res'eaat Lonl lon seasoni, whaifo the practice of( drink nig water its near to boilinag poinat, as as aumaiily possible haas taukena to itself a auppleamentar'y treatienatl in thec Uted states. Th'le pr'obably apocryphtal say ng attributed to Dianae do Poictic ,ier hiat shte (wed thae preserv'ationa of hae ieauty io the uaso of' cold water is gradu thy becoumng discredited, anad Ph yllis to longer' haves hier lovely f'eatua e ini lae cool tiransl ucenat wave, but, ini thbe iame almost boiling hot. As, a few ~ear-s ago, we weare eanthutsiastic about, :ld tubbinlg, mao.st meari tor'ious wvhaen lao ice oit the to!) is requir-ed to be >r'okena with a bootjack, so is at kinid of aealdinig praopagand~a in praogress at the >resenlt moment, an~d thxose who( clamag nost desperately to the gehid tub are mow quietly pushed anto luakewar'in if mot hxot water. Do the best yotu catn, and God anad tour own conscieuace will appr-ove, houagh mana condemn.t tyles in Board$ "What kind of beards o you meet rith most frequentlyl?". "Tho inoustache is bf r the most onnion. Thou come ti ioustache nd chin beard, and afte* that a full eard. Twenty years agi moustaches rere very rare, and I c- remember, rlien I first came to Chi 'go, that the joys' used to nake conslt erable sport f a noustwche, espociall3if it qihowed iy signs of special care. 6:But duriig he last few years they hav been grow ig in favor, and now you can safely say licy are as inuch Anericall as .'. plu ibus unuin' or the trade I6llar. You 3e the Ainericans are a n ous peoplo nid talk faster than thosewf any other ace, and It is iy opinionthey like the ioustache because they t1ink they calm love their jaws faiter than if tihey had air all around their face. I go to hinking that way because nearly all lie Eindimllshmnen that have cone under iy hands talk a great deal slower and refer the characteristic side whiskers. .'he Frencineni, of course, prefer a oustache, but they differ fron &neri ains in adding an imperial if they are blo. A line goatee among Aincricans i very rare. To show how American lie mioustache is considered, just look t the Gerimam. Do you suppose Ito iould take to wearing one if lhe thought t was entirely Frencly? But nearly very Teuton that coimes over cultivates lie upper lip especially, in hopes of iecoimmg speed ily Amiericanized. They vould of ten have better success raising , beard. Tihe Irish incline to- smooth 1ces, I suppose, to give their features chance to hell) their wit. You kiiow alf an Irishmau's story would be lost It you couldn't get, tie full expression n his face when he is getting off oinething sharp." "What is the most Comm11on color?" "Well, I id that there are about tenl andy moustaches to . one black. '1 Ludge of your surprise by the color of our eyes,' as they say in Pinafore,' ut don't wonder that people have a vrong idea about it, because black yes are used so mnuch. A natural lack moustache is not as coinuion as cop'e inmagine.'" "Have you discovered what treat ent is best, to imake beards grow?" "Nothing will give any more satis tretion than patience. This repeated utting every week or so only weakens be sources of the hair's g rv wi. After cing cut frequently, the hair grows ut a certain length, spl'its and soon lls out. I proved that on a customer I wine. Ie had a very line beard, but no day lie thought a certain portion idn't, grow right aid so hie had it cut 'if, and now the portion that was cut vill only grow out to within three or our inches of the old length, and con lituently his full beard is ruined. The itting of the ioistache at, ally time is bad mistake, for its beauty consists ti its being soft and silky; but after everal cuttings this all disappears, 3aviig tihe hair wiry aid stiff.'' ". 'Whiich patronize you best-married r single nmen?' "Thre'iacs no difference, so far as I an see. Vhen a ian iarries lie enerally inakes efforts to econoinize, ud stays away from thie barber a few reeks, but lie always linds that it is lieaper after all to have his beard at (nded to by skilled hands. A man tho was shaved the irst few years by barber rarely gives it up to shave at one, but there are a number who -arnied the knack when they were stu euts or teachers who still cling to it coin force5 of habit.'' "What (10 you think will be the style f' the futurey" "Of course that is hiard to tell, b~ut lnce mny early (lays I have observed a rowlug dhike for chin i beards, which thinik will constinume for soumme years Ct.", A m.petaance oi i a Tornatio,. As the toriado iiow~~ Sweep~s oiward in its couirse it rises and falls withl a cries of bounds, and, with ma sway ing aetion, describes a zigzag course, now orning a chain of loops, and again hooting off on an obtutse angle, 'vary ng in t~he speed oif its forwardl iotioni vhiich mnay be any where from ten tos hirty mniles an hour. At the sainme line it, is rapidly whirlling on its axis ui the opposite dilrectionm fr'omn a screw, r the hiand~s of a clock, the air revolv - ng around the vortex, necessarily at ining a slpeed of seeral hundred Lnes an hour. First, widening, then ontracting, inow bounding above the *rec-tops, amd againm descenintig to weep the earth bare of every obiject v'ithiin its reach, t~me -aerial iinonster urgegs oniward. The i largest, forest rees, intere playl.hinigs ini its grasp. are hicked up by3 thet roots, or $nappmed elf ike pipe steinis; sublsalitisal buildi iaigs re irst criushedt like egg shells, Lhen auight up ini the vortex anid the debris arried soniietiimes for iles before it, i~, .gaini thrown off by cenitrlfugal force .nd falls by3 grav itationi any where, very where, us son as released I roan lhe mnonster's giasp). 1t is dlillIcuilt, to accuriately describe he torn adlo's appearanice andI work, von for those who have been eye wit. esses5, or who have persi'onlahy passedh hirough the horrors its "coinig brings. V hile accounits dIiffer as to its app~lear mace unid behavior, as witnessed froini allerent, points of observation amnd iii er different, Ccinst~ances, all 5iub tanmtially agiee that, its apex resembih-ts ie and smoke, and that, vivid lignt ling and heavy rain-fall usually ac oimlainy it,. In rare inustanc s, cle icity, in the forum of St,. 1hniio's lire, v'ilh precede thbe vortex, anid a ivhite, (tenniy cloud will hollow. It, will be bserved thbat, the form of thme tornado loud is nicely llhustrated by the proof-plane"' used ini teach ing natuiral 'hiilosophy. The smnall end of the plame i most, heavily chiargedl witlh electric Ly, and, the nearer it applroachies to a erfect, point,, the greater will be0 the eulul ationa; a highi tensioni is caused, mid the electricity must eape by sonme onductor. So, in the tornuado-eloudI, lie smaller the point or stem, tIlte reoater the force exerted when it mneets ha earth- ... The Vieitore AdJourned. 'Tie Thirteen Club, of New ork, has many precious relics In Its rooms at Capt. Fowlor's Knickerbocker Oit tage, but its most ,preoloui. relic is a pauther skii, which. theCaytalk shows with inuoli prid. ' 1ew days, since the Captain gazo fondly into the glass eyes, stroked htip -fur loyjnglj and said: "On September 13 1870f F was hunt ing on the Maiakating Barrens, up in Sullivan County. I wasn't looking for panthers, not by a long shot. Deor was what had enticed me out there and I was in shape not to raise any objeo tionst o a bear, should one come my way. rieo of 'ly barrels was loaded with thirteen buckshot. Ever been lip on the Maiakating Barrens? No? Well, they're Pretty well up being, by actual measureient, 1,313 foot above tido." "l'd been trampimg, over the Barrens on this particular day W1hen suddoly I heard a noise oil to my right. I turned and lookod, and there was this panther tearing straight for mo. I just up With imly-gun and whanged away with my thirtceu buckshot. The panther gave a yell that inade me turn pale, tit lie stopped for good. I always step just three feet when I walk-always* iL never knew it to vary ai inch, I walked toward the dead panther. I remembered afterward that I took just four of my steps, and not (ite the length of my foot over, to wtore the panther lay-thirteen feet. My toAt is just thirteen inches long. Queer, el? Weil, I began to haul lly big game out, to the road. It was a tough pull, but I linally got him i' tie Barrens. I Inanaged to got a horse and wagon to carry me and my gaie in. After we had loaded the panther into the wagon I asked the boy who was to drive ie in, how far it was to Wurtsboro. " Pluinb thirteen iniles, and we've got a hill for every mile,' said lie. "We got to Vurtsburo, and when I looked at lily watch I found that we had been thirteus minutes over threr hours coming in. I began tolind fault with the boy for taking so long. ''Well,' saia he, that'r a tough road, and I think I've done irst rate, bein's as this horse was thirteen years on the canal before we got himi, and that was thirteen years ago this month, just the time I was born." "Of course the panther and myself created a big excitinjt,. But it wasu't until I couinted the paither's teeth, and found there were only thirteen left, and then found that lie measured just thir teei feet from tip to tip, that I began to think about the singular thirteen business connec'.ed with the killing of this animal. 1et's see-September 13 1313 feet above tide, 13 buckshot, pani ther with 13 teeth and 13 feet long, dropped dead with 13 buckshot in it, 13 feet from me, 13 miles fromN Wurtsboro, 13 hills on the road, boy 13 years old, driving a horse that had been 13 years on the canal, and 13 years with the boy's family. If you don,t call those singular coincidences, I don't know where you're going to get,' ca. And--'' The Captain suddenly stepped talk ing. An expression of concentrated awe appeared in his face. Then lie struck his list on tihe sideboard and said: Why, holy smnoko? September 13, 18701 That's just thirteen years ago next meeting day of this club! Gentle umueie, Comet" .l'here were thirteen bulging -based corks on the sideboard an hour later, when the visitors adjourned. WVaksagian's I1t.Iquetto. President Washington never wont to (Jongress on public business except in a state coach, drawn by six cream-colored horses. The coach was an object which would excite the admiration of the throng oven now in the streets of Lon don. It was built in the shape of a hemisphere, and its panels were adorned with Cupids, surrounded with flowers worthy of F'loiida, and of fruit not to co equaled out of Uialformna. The coach~man and postilions wore arrayed in gorgeous hiveries of wvhite and scar it. The Philauteiphia (,a~c/h, a Govermu~ent organ, regularly gave a supply of court, newvs for the edification oi the citizens, From that, the people wore allowed to learn as much as it was deemed proper for them to know about the President's' umovemontsh, and a fair amount of spae was also dievoted1 to Mrs. Washinizgton-who was not re torred to as Mis. Washiimaton, but as 'Ihie amiable consort of our bloved President.' W hen the [Presidlenit madhe his appel~aranhce iat a bali or public recop. lion, a dais was~ erected for haim, upon01 wvhich lie might stand apart from the vulgar throng. and toe guests and1( visi torn bowed to him in aolemun silence. 'RL -publicans simplicity' hias only come in lator timies. In o~ur day the baick-driver wvho takes a visitor to a l)uolie reepitionI at tihe White House is jlintto free to get oil' his box, walk iln sido by side with his fare and shake hands with the P'resident with as much familiarity as anybody elsc. Very few p~orsonis presumed to snake haind with (Gen. Washington. Oa1o of his friends, Governour Morris, raschlIy uindertook, for a foolish wager, to go upj to hinm and slap him en the shwuler, saying: "My dear Geneiral, amiu happy to see yon look so well.' The moment fixed upon arrived, and Mr. Morris, already halif repenting of his wager, went up to his 'ihouldeir, and uttored the p~rescri bee words. 'WVashington', as an eye wit ness described the sceno, 'withdrew his hand, stepped suddenly back, fixed his eye on Morris for several minutes wvith an angry frown, until the latter retreated abashed, and sougnt refuge in the crowd.' No one else ever tried a similar experiment. ,It Is reorded of Washington that ho wished the offi cial title of the President to be "High Mighitiness," and at one time it was proposed to engrave his portrait upon the national coinage. No royal levees were more punothiousiy arranged thanI those of the first Protmant ' Intelleostita Deoaieonce of 1tse., Boston Ifl not aloin ill saffering a dowufall from its intelilectual suprem acy. The day is past for provincial antres of national intelligence. Edin. burgh has been deposed like Bo.ston from a rank yet more exalted. Wei mnar has sunk to be a petty residence I town. Geneva has gone into trade and I politics. Florence Is no 1nore an in- I tellectual centre. Oxford and Cai bridge retain no dictatorship lin letters. ( It imay seein to be only a transfer of I the intellectual hieadship from one lo cality to another. The change may be t supposed to be nothing but an instance I of the common law of the rise and de cine of local greatess. London in y I be deeined simply to have taken prow- I dence of Edinburgh, and New York of ( Boston. The process.- is no sach inure i process of local substitution. The in- t tellectual exaltation of E'dinburgh had t inuch imoro inl it of Edinburgti ,hana t the intellectual doiinion of Lonido t can over have inl it of Loandon. The I character of Boston tingod tho literary i miluenice of ILLvard mi0Oe deeply than i Now York will bu tracuablu in Wo i- 4. terature whicit lu.ty there plant, its to- C cal residence. itellectual autloaracy t when it shifts its quarter s to a CItro a like London or Now York, maigtAl d that it may be iidepoledolt, of ii o cality. The intellectul sooptre i.s iii I course of depar uro fromn itjtani b)1)- i cause literary decrees datId ro.n 11)5. 1 ton could not, bulSaVor of lB).to.a. a America desires tiat its literaturo u should appertamn to AIerica at, large. 1, New York has no pOwor to pass tirough L any medium it can provide Americaan t literaturo and intelligenco, altboupi t they happen to be lodged witliin it. A metropolis which has becotne a metro. polis from the spontLaneusi, teintoney or il the natioual forces and enerwgisi to L breathe and circulate through it, at- il tracts national intelligeice by itus very j inability to retlect anything modro nr;L- t rowly local than the nation itself. Not u a little is lost when a town like 13 5La slips from its literary supruliey. j Whether held in coamnission b'y a score a of cities from Now York and 1io-oita 4 to Chicago and St. Liuis and Sai Vran- - cisco, or engrossed by Now I ork alone, y tie charm of American litorary soeiety a gatlered about, Harvard canmot be re- j produced. It will soon be a iemaory, d like the tradition of the society of Edin- g burgh of the age of Jeffrey and Scott y i)md Wilson. Tey who witnessed and L partook of it as it was wien Longofellow v Ltmd Lowell and 1lohno11s discoursed oil u poetics, and Emerson on hunmanity aitld h Uarlyle, should congratulatu themselves t on an experience waticli cainot be re- t peated. d Yet the literary decadence of Boston t may mark for America the close of a t period of intellectual Ipilage. Crude I and rough as is much of American in- Ij tellectual activity, the dissomlination of b intellectual activity everywhore is in- si disputable. Literary experineints of s magnitude obtain publishers and rea- a tiers inl otier towns than Boston. Ela- a borate researches are cond ucted in more t than one Americancity. Dean Liddell fj aNd Dean Scott acknowledge their ob- f ligations to America for ripe Grook ti scholars reared elsewhere than at liar- i vard. To Boston itself dethronement y) or mediatization will not be an un- ia mixed affliction. Uneasy lies the head u that wears a crown, ospecially a liter. u ary crown. The.brows of many worthy v citizens of Boston must frequently have I ached uinder the duty, inposed by 6hae u world's identification of them with g their refined townsmen oil tile Coiimon v or tranlscental nleighibors at, Cambridge, ii to speculate more b~eyond( their diepth g than tile mlost inltricate transactions in y spermaceti oil or t~anneries would ever u have required. Th~e whispers of thle f; oaks of DJodoms~ mlust, at, times hlave i, troubled prosaic Epirotes with a sense p of the burden of mnamnaining an air of a solemnity in proper dramatic accord- C anice with the genius of their locality, Ii Now that the literary fellowship of Cambridge has closed. Its list, of mem13- C bers, and othber American unilversities a are grown as learned as liarvard, and I othler Amaeriean publishers aLs enlter- t. prisinlg, the average N ew Enaglander is g not bound to hbe thlouaghtful in excess of Is ilns nlat utral gifts, lie can always 1e- 1 inud Newv Yoikers that, thme press of a Boston is as classicalI, at any rate, as t that of Ne York, and that Ikaiston t devours allre literature. wVorkaamg Stoneo. Duarinlg a residence of two witers i' .1 tomb alt (Gizel, Mr. Petrie LjcollOd evidence showing that tools used mn working stone 4,000 years ago were con. structed with a jewel as the 0utting' edge, lie stated his reasaonsfor comng ~ to tis conclusion in a paper read beOfor'e the Aunthropological;institute, a resume, of which is p~ublished in London. Solid and tubular drllls, t aighat, and circular disk saws and1( lathe tools were made1 with jewels set ill metal. Tihe ljies of cutting on a graitol core aade by a tubular drill froml1 conmliuotus spiral, the y grooves bieing of unaiform deptha and, width throughout, showamg that the cutting pomnt wasw not wvorn as tile work adv~anced. Th'le reguar laper of the r core wouldl indlcate that1 the jewels were tiso set upon tile outside and iinide of a drill, thereby facilitatimg its removal. fn some specimoens of granite the drilla sank one.-tenth of am inch at oeh revol- i tiion, aud the pressuro necessary to (10 tis must have been fromn one to two 14)ns. Th'le skill of the workmnen and the enacaity (af the tools are illustrated by ?110 clean path through both soft and t (lard material -no difference iu the groove being perceptible, although it a passes from a solt bsitanlceinWtoquartv, v subjecting the tool to an enormousu j straun, ini plano surraces tho depth and 0, width of the cuta indIcate the sucecessiv eo stroke of a saw, and thle use of tile cir- ha onlhar saw is proved by theo regularly y' curved lines. Thle fermsa of the tools a were the same that esperience hs sanc- p tioned at the present time. TIhe scarcity y of the diamond and theilack of strenigth a in the saphiro and beryl lead to the con- c sidbration of corundrum. Nothing has been fu'mnd about thle metal of which the tool was made or the method of set- t ein the fewel, t The 4ua Hat Vever. . "Iave you ever beeh attacked with the plug hat fever?" asked an old gen ieman the other evening, and without waiting for a reply, went on to relate ALs own experience, ant to tell the re mit of his own observations, "I never Cuew of a young man who, when he lad reached an age between 18 and 25 )ut what he had the plug hat fever to a rreater or less severity. H1e will suffer 6 great deal, too, before it fairly breaks nit, and lie gets a shiny tile on his 110ad. Then he suffers severely for sev. ral days after lie gets the hat, and'is moiceited enough to believe the eyes of he whole word are upon him. Ile vill wish for the first day or two he iadn't got it, and then again he'll Alttok up grit enough to wear it in spite of everything. Next to the mustache ,.nbition, the plug hat fever strikes to h1e very vitials. The fiest syipton of lie fever makes its presence known by h1e victitu visiting some hat store, and rying on half a dozen silk hats, al Joking admiringly at himeilf [it a u'ir or, Ieo will put, it on square, the cock L over to uli right sido, theln lanig it i his left ea.r, andul s1iniles with satis. itction at the hia kge of hitil'f 1trder h hat in the nirror. A yonig calf itdor a iow shod cotil ot feel proti. or of itself tlMIi tbo yotiig ilin l wit, OSOs down Oil his uppor lip, wheni lie rAt bAiolds his mnily brow inl a look-. 14 glass, supportilig a shinly silk hat. ' o overcoiniig for Ialytliing, and I aL gat alivy inil tanis ii, is in vuroomning than bucomintg. But then licy matst haave 'hut 11) inl Lit'Ur about lio expoinse. Fiially tlit hat is pil-. lmased, piul, im a haULL botx amlli Conlveyed i the youtig it.mt' rooin with Lthe ealest, f caro mid fond ex puhtttiom5 f the inaillituws it will give thu wea.trer i tbo iar ttru. Por a wouk, iay 0 he Will Uxuruisu tbe h.tt, by we.trilr , in his room for a few hourrs ov.- y vMing. Finmally lhe gets hi3 coirtgo j tih Iroper pitch, and tion anl anspic 1ts Stiliday eveiniig starts for cii 0ntrehi ith the hat nicely settiig on tbu Ltop r his head. lie kinow he would attract, ttentioni and the first strot, urclin lie ictis caills attentiont to it by shouting Iloot tie hat.' iNow low did that, muitg Ieatbln colie to notico ainytbini OW or nOV01 inl the hat? It is easily qJplailmA. When a mina.t weiars a plug at Oi tie street for the first, t1lie ives hiiself away by his ['ii-on-dress irade air. 110 Will walk Us carefully a Iough trying to balance a pail Of 'ater on his head and expecting every 10mut that it will tip off awd douse im. lt don'tsqueak like a now shoo a attract attentioii, but it stiffens up 10 spine in an unusual aid unnatural ogreo. It takes several public appear uces in the now plug to again limber .p the spine to its normal condition. Lrriving at ciurch the young man esitates for an Instant about goiig in, ut rememi bering an appointmilet to O a young lady home, he braces up, 4iUy holds the determined-to-attracI, Lutntion silk hat over his right fore r'm, and mentally swears vengance on io uslitr who prances him up to the 'ont pow in th centre of the church )V 110 other purpose thain to call at mtion in his mind, to the new plug. light out of ten flrst-time-l-wore-a lug-hat young men Vili become so gtated that instead of putting the hat, a tihe lloor out of Clhe way, will place it a the seat and forget to remove it ien the usher shows som one else in or the sole purpose, in his mind, of lav ig them sit on it and wreck it. It's a 0Od thing to haive the first plug rrecked in this way, because the firsi at, has got to be wrecked, but it is enerally done by some kind friend 'ito sneaks lip behind,. Jams it down ver your eyes and is away before you urly understand a brick block hasn't tambled on to you. A pliug hat is rolbabiy the most, dressy hat, but, eavensl how a man snufers when the ivor first fully devolps itself to a cnd. J ust, as the story was finished a youny allow with skin-tight pants, tooth-pick troes, arms curved so as to make his ody look as though It was in a paron imesis, with a pipestem cane in the uin 'cra of his right, hand, while a shiny, itest Icoud style of plug hat, was on his cad, passed. "Poor fellow," re arked the old mian as he passed into lie hotel, "if he only had braims enough I) cover the point of a cambrio needle is hat, would be quite becomniug. They 11 get the fever though, regardless of 'A no CIonsUE~unaptUs or ut, 'VT comntiulptltoi of gold for otlier hman monetary13 purpioses in Euirope, uneroica anid A uistralia has more than undrupled in thirty years, and has uite trehiled in twenty years. it is lore thtan five timhes what it, was half century ago. Th'le groat mass of old wvhich has flowed from mines has eeni absor bed in the same opulence and axury of the ilijes which have swai )wedl upi the flood of gems, great in ohlume beyond anly formulr precedent, r'oni the dialnmonml ields ci South Afri a, and1( inicreasiing prlices will be quit~e s likely to whet the appetite for both s to check it,. Five-sixths of the cur unt produtctioni of-gold is absorbed ini ie arts and1( mnufiactulres, in the west rn world andl in British Inldia. A art of tile remiaininig six is lost ini the 'ear of coms5 and by fires, shipwrecks nid forgotten hoards. What, is left t~o icrease the stock of gold money in roplortioni L tiue iniciease of popula cio, exchailges, aid~ wealth of the forktl? it, is piossibile that thie priodltue ion of gold amay increase, Lt is also ossiblo that, it, may decrease as it, act* ally has beeni decreasmng for miany ears, but there is no unicetalnty aboit. to conlsumpiltioni of gold, which is sure > grow par'i passu with the gro wing pulonce and luxury of the world.' It, as trebled w'.ithini the past, twenty ears, and if it only doubles withi the ext twenty years it will. exceed the rodluct~iovent at t~he extreme r'ate rhtich it attained when the California adf Australia out-turin was at, its high - 3t point. What Is defeat? N~othing but educa ion; nothing but time tirat, Ste p to some, kaing better.