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TRIMEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBO1RO. S. C.. NOYEMBER 10. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848. NO LONGER ISMILING ISUIIA. My soul to-day Is far away, 8ailing the Vesuvian bay; Miy winged boat, A bird afloat, Tu% lutos round the purple peaks remote. Round purplo peaks It sails an( seeks, Blue Inlets, and their crystal creeks, Where high rocks grow, Through ( >tlis below, A duplicated goldein glow. Far, vague and dim, The mountains swim; While on Vesuvius' misty brim, With outstretched bands, The gray smoke stands, O'erlooking the volcanic lands. Here Ischia smiles O'er liquid miles; And yonder, bluest of the Isles, Calm Capri waits, Her sapAhire gates t Beguiling to her bright estates. f TH'E HOUSE OPPOSITE. At the death or her brother Wilfred, Vivit de Forest felt broken-hearted. 1 lhad been her only near living rel V.l ative. The news of his death had come to her with fearful suddenness. (alle to a Westein city for the purpose of superintending some business connected with the estate of his late lather, Wl- p fred (who sometimes, though rarely, V had periods of dissipation) was shot in a barroom quarrel. Poor Vivia had suffered teiribly. The funeral was over now, and the dull quietude of her present life had a mo notony which almost made her long for the more exciting painfinness of the previous week. A distant cousiu of hers, an elderly e lady, had come to Jive with her ju the a large family mansion, 'which was now Vivia's exclusive property. But old Winifred Carr was rather doleful com pany. To-day it had rained dismally from t dawn until late in the afternoon. Vivia could not fix her thoughts very long oni the books she was reading. In spite or herself they would somehow wander back to recollections of her dear lost brother, of their childish life together, and of the untimely death which had parted them now. g Hoveral times during the day Vivia atj went to the window and looked out upon the rainy street. In the house directly opposite was one special window, where, ever siuce a morning she had. seen a girl of her own ago. re The girl was very pale, and wore an exprcssibn of undoubted woiriment. Some times Vivia thought that she ro gazed toward her own window, with a e wistful, appealing look. tO bhe had known in years past, the a previons occupants of this house, but it had recently passed into other hands, pa and she had never known the name of the people' who had taken it. Now and then the pale girl whose sad looks n had to-day attracted her notice, had Y0 been before seen by Vivia. whiile as- g cending or descending the stoop, But tli she had never seemed as troubled as at sh present. a "I wonder what her trouble is,.' ba thought Vivia. "Ah, I am sure it is b not as bitter as minel' b She started while this thought was th crossing her brain, for the girl oppo site had made with one hand a quick, " beckoning gesture, that there seemed u no mistaking. And after having made such gesture she had hastily left the wndow. to] In about ten minutes she returned fr( jagain, however. Vivia was waiting Y7 for her, If ever girl had a kindly to heart in her breast, that girl was Vivia 0 de Forest, She now made signs which b( plainly indicated: "Do you wish mc to come over?''" An eager nodding of the head gave emphatic affirmative to this silent ~ guestion. ei "She is in trouble." thought Vivia. ~ "I may do some good; I will go!" li The rain had stopped. It was now bi almost nightfall. Vivia threw a dark ~ shawl about her shoulders to defend her - against the raw December wind, and ha * ran aicrossa the street. She had not to Y7 ring the benl. The (leer was opened as she reached the top stoop. The pale " *- girl opened it herselfI. "It was good of you to come," she said, whli'o her diark, sad eyes sweptY Vivia's face as they stood in the hall ;'together. "I hope I can be of some service to )) you," Vivia answered. "You scerm to be in trouble. I know nzyself what n ,trouble is. Pray tell me how I cant ~'help you."~ They were presently seated together, and the girl had taken one of Vivia's I hands betwooen both her own. -I nave a brother here in this houf e," ~"she said, "wvho is pursued by the polie Hie wishes to escape. Once in a foreign a land, he can elude the law's vignance. 4 I am quite alone, being an orphan, and ~ i only having Hugh to love and eare for ~ 1 out of all the world. I wanted to fly with him, but that, he says, is impossi le. He will not hear of it, though he ~ promises to write for me to joia him l after lie is safely meyond pursuit." And wvhat erime has he committed?" 1 askedN Vivim, K Oh, it was no crime," answered the 1 girl. "He has been f alsely accused of I d murder." "Falsely accused," murmured Vivia; "how terrible! Have they convicted 1dm?"4 "No; lie has not been tried yet. He was in St. Louis only alshort time ago, when a friend of his, from whom he K had but recently parted, was ound killed in his hotel. Hugh was arrested on the charge of having murdered him, but escaped." "And why should he not have faced S' his accusere?" questioned Vivia. "Was he afraid to do so?'' ".No," said a voice ini the door way. Vivla looked in the direction whence the voice had come. A very handsome young man, though worn and haggard-looking, had just entered. It was Hugh. "I see, Ella," he said, "that you are trying to enlist the sympathies of this. Indy in my hahalf, Eint have you hought of what a reckless thing you ,re doing?" "You need not fool any tear of me, ir," said Vivia, quietly. I should have 10 motive in betraying you, even though thought you guilty." "Rugn is as innocent as I am!" ox ,laimed his sister, in a plaintive, tear iul voicn. The young man was now close at livia's side. The dimness of the room kad not previously let her see how andsome he was. He fixed his darkly orillant eyes intentely on Vivia's face, nDd said: "If I had passed through a trial I aight have been sure that circumstan ial evideuce would have convicted me. )an you understand this?" -"Yes," said Vivia, "but surely, if on are innocent, it would have been etter to suffer conviction than go lirough the rest of your life a fugilive rom justice." "I do not think sol" cried Ella at [lis point. "I would have him live at ny cost I" More than an hour elapsed before ivia went home again. And she visit A that house many times more during ic next fow wvks. Both she and Ella elieved that her exits and entrances ero watched, Pud that Hugh's presence icre was suspected by certain spies sted in the neighborhood, but they ere not by any means sure. By this time Vivia had silently ad itted to her own heart that she loved .ugh Robertson. It had been love at rat sight' with her. His beauty and is melancholy fate had both produced wastrois results with her young, ro antic soul. She had determined to help him to cape. She was a girl of strong wil id intlexible determination. One day 0 Fita to him: "1. have been working out a plan. The t >uso directly in the rcar of yours is - inm. I purchased it yeslerday. To- t orrow ni;ht it will be quite vacant, >l can cross by the back fences, and t into the next street through that I use, Tihere will be a carriage wait- r g for you a few doors below. It will g ivo you wherever you wish to be ivel.'" i Hugh's face lighted with a softly 1 ateful -mile. Ella thiew both arins r out Vivia's neck and rapturously .I ised her. r On the following night they all three 11 At for a few last words of forewell, 0 it before Hugh's venture was ti'ed. h1 Iu the back garden a ladder was tl idy, by which Hugh woud climb a, to the garden of the ottier house. 1 agh, Vivia and Ella all stood in i 0 .):n which communicated with the s8 u piazza. -ugh tirst said farewell fl ElMa, who eLung for a few minutes u )lnbg aliout. his neck. Then he li med to Vivia He uas frightfully V 10. tj "What I have to say," lie began, alla ought not. perhaps to hear. It t] y kill her. IL will probably givo 11, Vivia de Forest, an intense an ,isl. I have deceived my sister up to t is moment. I am iiot innocent. I t' At the man of whose murder I am V -ims:d-ishot himi1 Openly enough, in a rroom in Sr. Louis. He insulted mel e was very much1 enraged! We had P th been drinking. There is no doubt c At I was terribly to blame!" "Hughl" now broke fro'n Ella's lips, his4 cannot be! You are deceiving r I. il "Would I were!" he murmured; "and C mid, too, tiht' this were all I had to 9 .1. But it is not all. Vivia de Forest, m the first moment that I looked on iu I loved you. Bu1t it was days be eeO I knew who you wvere. Wilfred Lidwell wvas your halt-brother! You ar a different name from his." "What do you mean?" falterel Vivia, 1. th paling chteks, l "Ah, why did' you not remember lI ien you first met me,'' Hugh Itioh- Il t-o no11w crie.d, "'tmt I b~ore. the e we name (commnon at na'me as it may t Lve been) as the man who shot yourt other? But you (lid not think o1 ibis! >u pitied me! Then you eared for me -oven lovedl me, Vivia, since at this >ur I need not deny that I gnessed a mr love! Yet all the while I was-oh i caven! how hard, it is to speak the urds!-I was your brother Wilfrett'sJ urderer!" A faiot shiveringir moan broke from ivia's lips, T1he next instant she and Ila were clinging together, ais if for utual support. It was a common mm-< alsc wvith the two unhappy creatures. 'ich hadl been cruelly deceivedl. Each iw woke withi horror to a realization of ie truth. "Fa",rewell" they now heard Hugh 111 to them, while they stood with cads boweri on each ether's shoulder. God guard both of you if we should over meet again." Thowy heard him 0oen the window na go out into the garden Then came uite a long silence. And then a gruff o1ce whose tones seemed to curdle ther iood, called out amid thle still night: 'Stop. or I fire." There was no answer. Perhaps three eonds of silence followed, and then a een pnmt >l shot rang out on the tranquil ight air. After that lucre was a long, cavy groon. "lie has beeni shot!'' cried Vivia, rnoking wvith dilated eyes into her com sanion's ghastly face. It was true. Vivia's plans, shrewdly 5s she had conducted tnem, had been vatched, A neighibozung house had icon taken by the deetives 99 a post of )bservaltionl. Perhaps, after all, Hugh Loertson's appearance, climbing the >ack fence there in the bright winter noonlight, had been somewhat of'* a urprise, else the shot wvouldi net have >con fired. But it was a shot that aroved fatal. A few years later Ella Robertsor mar tied, but Vivia do Forest has never banged her naume, and never will. I'here are somel woundls that, although they (do not kill, never heal. And| Vavia's is one of thlem. A BUnnivAN of the Sky:i The reason why the lightning does not strike twice mi the same p lace sleeause nothing of the place is loft to strike after the first mound. HorrIblo Hayti. An American traveler in Hayti says; we left Jamaica, however, in late July or early August and steamed across through indigo seas to Jacmel and other Haytian p)orts, making the circuit of the entire island, shootiug into shelt ered harbors here and there. Nearly always the mountains lay like great iridescent lizards against the horizon monstrous saurians sprawling Im blue or in bronze-green against the edge of the sky; singular and fantastic moun tain piles in whose hidden gorges the balf-wild negro tribes live and spawn. The infainles said to be practiced by this population are beyond description. Cannibalism is said to prevail; the white man is held in the greatest abhorrence; and we heard of the rooted determina. tion of the jet-blacks to exterminate the yellow-skinned, feeble, mulatto castes of the sea-ports. Our captaii warned us not to spend the night on shore in any of the pors we visited, for fear of personal violence or of simple malignity. Tihe island is pretty thickly peopled and is divided between the IHaytians of the West and the light skiinned, intelligent, French-speaking San Domingoans of the East. Tie greatest dissimilarity exists be Lween these geograpl; ical divisions. The San Domingo people are full of miergy and push, eager for railroads and tlegraphs, enlightened and more or less 3ivilized. The laytians are reported )y those who know thei intimately to 1) savage depraved, ol)posed to every 'orni of white civilization, and devoured )y the most baleful vices and diseases. 'hey speak a French jargon very hard .o understand, a lingo made up of lacer ited French conjunctions and genders >lentifully sprinkled with words of their nn coinage. There are peculiarly hor -ible maladies prevailing among them; heir sense of decency is of the stightest nid their reputation for trickery is such hat we had to guard ourselves con tantly against their cunning and fraud. The country is one of striking love hiess, a flower-garden stocked with tile arest growths. We saw the finest rowths of rosewood and inahogaiy, voods smothered I imperial vines, an timosphere hiden with suggestions of lossoming spices; but to get to all this, othing but dillicult bridle paths or in ccessible lanes, with here and there a oad wide enough for a carriage. We ict troops of silent, malicious-looking, blique-glancing blacks as we rode on orseback or wandered through the >wns; creatures that gazed with nmazeient and horror to ;30e white copIle iIVa(inlg their doniesue. One Id wonan riding on a tall horse was startled by our cavalcade that she >rgot herself and was suddenly taken nider the china by an over-arching limb, fted off her animal, and deposited not cry gently on the ground below, to liilillnimtl 111111111111t f th~ nit "tyv it waspin la shocki lo hear me stories of liaytian depravity to 'Ihichm we had to listen-the foul su erstitions, the rank barbarism, the to t] illiteracy and indifference to educa on prevailing in the country. We 'ere told that a traveller had discoverea uman flesh for sale at one of the mark Ls of the interior, and had bought a iece of it to bring away with hini as a utriosity and as a pisce of evidence'ot' ie state of things there. Wiichcraft, oodouism, nameless immorality are unpant. I there is any Christianity , is of the lowest type. The grossest orrupLtion festers in the municipal or anization and Im tihe a(lministrative heme, if there is anythiing that can o called such. Enting at, Night. Popularly, it is thought i njunrionu, utt uniless dinner or sumpper have beenui tte, or the stomach disordered, it is armless and benehicial, i. e., if one be ungry. Four to live honurs hiavinig latpsedl since the last iueal, inxvalid- and hie delicate should always eat at bed imne. This seems heretlical, but, is not. rood, of sunple kind, will induce Sleep,. knimials, after eating, instincmtively leep. H~uman beings become drxo wsy ,ftter a full meali. Why? Blecause blood s solicited towardL the stomach to sup >ly the juices nleedled in dligestion. Ieince tihe brain receives less blood than luring fasting, becomes pale, anid the >owers grow dlormiant. Sleep) theretore imsues. This is phlysiological. T1hie ainking sensation in sleeplessniess is a all for food, Wakefulness often is nerely a symptom of hunger. Gratify he desite and you fall asleep. The writer recently wams called at two a. in. o a lady wvho assured himui she was dy ng. Thein body was warm, the hecart loing honest work. To 1her indigna ion, lhe ordlered buttered bread (hot milk or beef-tea w~ere better) to be eaten it once. Obeying, the moribund lady was soon surp~rised by a return of life andl~ desire to sleep). T1hie feeble will be stronger at dlawn if they eat on going to bed. Fourteen hours lie between supper and breakfast. By that time the fuel of the body has become expended. Consequently, tihe morning toilet fatigues many. Lot such eat at bed-time, and take a glass of warm milk or beet' tea before rising. Increased vigor will result. "But the stomach must rest." True. Yet whlen hungry we should eat. Does thme infant stomach rest as long as the adutlt's? T1hne latter eats less often merely because his food requires more time for dhiges tion. Seldom can one remain awake until half-past ten or eleven p. in., with out hunger. Satisfy- it and sleep wilhl be sounder. During the night give wvakeful chiil dren food. Sleep will follow. TIhie sick should invariably eat (luring time night. This~ is iniperative. At inight, the delicate and children may take, slowly, wvarm milk, beef tea, or oat meal gruel. Vigorous adults may also eat, bread and milk, cold beef, mutton, chicken and bread, rawv oysters, all, ot course, in moderation. Do not eat If not hungry. Eat if you are. '/Ac Mexiean Government is eour aging the manufacture of paper and tex. tile fa brics from Oaetu,and has recently granted important conessions to th< individuals..ho propose engaging in the new industry, How to Subdue a Wife. Col. Smuggins is a rare gentleman of the old school, while his wife is a devotee of the new. Up to the present life to the twain has not passed on "golden wings," but the time has been filled in a slipshod, go-as-you-please kind of way. She has always had her way, and lie has aiways submitted un der protest. She is proud and defiant, and pluck to the core. It was the dream of his life to subdue this deflance. Ile had studied for years a plan to ex. periment with his wife without any practical result, when one evening, not quite a nonJih ago its lie was seated up-stairs quite neglige, the idea which has since worked like a charm struck hin. Like the matheipatician of old lie rusheid wildly down-atairs and yelled "Eurekal" Ilis wife loomed up, and he recover ed. Ile swore nothing 1S the matter but she told him lie wa%- iotting, and that It might be against a lone woman like herself. For the first time in years he kissed her a regular Judas Iscariot kiss, which was so unexpected site for once ceas.ged to animadvert upon his wrongs and his coldness. This was time scheme he intended to try. As loug as he had been married his wife had never gone in bathing at the bqach, although ie had importuned her a hundred times to go with him. He soon discovered the reason. Sh hated to appear in a batiing-suit that would display her thin form, for in public 8ltc did not ap pear thim. lIe had an india-rubber bathing suit made that could be inflated and depos ited it at the store where his wife trad ed. le gave the head clerk a pointer, aid promised hin to treat to chai pagne i! lie succeeded. His wife went to pricegoods as usual when the suave-mannered clerk told her that a man in New York had pat ented a bathing suit of india-rubber for ladies that were thin, but, said he, "Mrs. Smnuggins is not on the thin list, and I'll not show It." But she desiredi to see it. if not too much tropble. Af ter a thorough examination, she told hiin ter niece was comiuug shortly to see her, and site would buy it for her. What was the Colonel's surprise to t liear her say next day if some husbands were like other husbands they would Lake their wives in bathing. lie asked t tier to go that evening, and chuckled 4 inwardly with diabolical glee. At the bath-house she took a long [Lme to dress in her room, but Ie wait d for her with patience, confident of success. When she emergbd from the room die had time "patent" o-? under the )thter suit. She looked s round and r )unp as usual and W4ii"Acimnhuly past d Ilis triumph was near. In the foam ing waves they went. It was new to -( ier. She enjoyed it. So did he. 11er t Friends were theie, all surprised to see I ier out. The sport became general ( tow. The Colonel swam around his I wife, and did something with a sanall o p)eIkife which he immediately drop- a )ed in tihe water. Int a few milAutes 0 tis wife called hhn to her, pale and a trembling with fright. ] "hiubby," she said, coaxingly, "ly i lfathigsuit is torn, and I don't want t to go out before the crowd."J "&Let me see," lie said. t "Oh, no; can't you believe ue?" i ILe told her coldly no, aud, further- c more, sie had to walk out before the < prowd or not go out with him at all. I Thtings looked dreadful for her niow,i and( site called him pet names, just like I s~he (lid before they were married, be-< fore she promised to obey, love anid i ebei sh, and all those things. She toldi iin site had imptl0oed upioni Itis good I nature, that hte was an angel, and that 1 from thtat imoment her life would trembled like an aspent leaf, while otte little hand clutched thte rope, anid the other was held out to him in mute d1e spair. Col. Smuggins wvas ntot stone, so her child-like forin wr's gathered ini his arms and site wvas takenm out unmobserv ed an~d takeni home. She is now the sweetest andl most tractable wvife on time island, anid Col. Smuggius is a happy mnan againi. But shte never dIreams of the put-up trick, and the Colonel is contenited to pay thme annuity to the clork in the way of treats to keep it a secret f rem heor. The Now Giamet of Rlidegarde. The progress of fashion is ever re tarded by the opposition of sticklers for propriety. Very likely the new game of Ilidegarde will encounter adlvcrse criticism. Many a staidl moth or will not let her. daughter play it, though the girl, if shanely and grace ful, could not possibly be emptjloyed to greater admiration. Iildoegarde is a combination of foot ball and cricket, a big, soft ball beinig struck with a wideO bat as well as kicked. It is the kick ing that ill subject a girl to cotmendma sinb t e will be able to stand it if flly onvicedthat shme looks wvell at thte exercise. As 1 viewed her at the new game, on thme secluded lawn of a Washtington Iheights residence, she wvore what I learnmed oni inquiry wvas a casaque, made of stock i net clotht, wvhich fitted hter body very closely. Tro be exact in small piarticulars, it wvas double-breasted, antd hind a stand-upl collar anid lapels like a main's coat It's feiInini ty was ehstab~lished, however. basmnall sash draped at the back. 'Iluere wvere skirts, too, bitt they wereo brief and scani;. Ilow else could shte kick freely? Manifestly, there must be ito dress restrictions about the feet that are to be used at llidegardo. Croquet and lawn tennis are both pas - sive compared with this sport. It it exercise of the most active sort, and a means of striking more numerous and varied attitudes to the minute, if the' layer is quick and pliant, thtan anty previous undertaking by the softer sex. Solid and rathier heavy shoes, with broad soles, low hteels, and bulttoned firmly aroun~d thle ankles, nmust he worn, for good kieking can't be done in French gaiters or N{ewnort tien. Tonquln. Few , words are necessary regarding the Ailthamito Administration in China. The system is precisely that of tle Chinese. Tonquin Is divided Into six teen provinces, seven of the first order eight of the second, one of the tbird the latter two orders being attached to the first. Each commune has a mayor. Each lot of twenty or thirty communes forms a sub-prefecture; six of these make a prefecture, govorned by a tuan fu or prefect. Provinces of the first class havoe'ach three great man darins, similar to those of China; the first is tongdoe or governor,the second bochink or treasurer, the, third anoat or judge. Once Tonquin had a viceroy, but lat terly it was found unwise to have olli cials of such high rank and power per manently there, and only an occasional royal commissioner is sont to report. The titles viceroy and govornor repre sent very dilrerent positions from those of .similar officers in China, where the power, wealth - and responsibilitses of those officets are considerable. In mountain and plateau districts there are tribes forming administrative divis ions, the oflice of mandarin being held by a tassu, an aboriginal hereditary chief, similar to those of China. Ton quin has copied from China, as indeat ad, its admiiiistrative system, and bor rowed its literature, religion and man ners; in fact., Tonquin is a copy of the level parts of eastern China. Nothing new, nothing original, arrests the at Lentioni of the stranger who has travel led i the Celestial 'lnlpire. The Ad [ninistration, though Admirable, fails liere as in China, and from the same reason, the main cause. being the imiade juacy of pay. Corruption as a flue art las been carried to the hijhiest limits. W1hen1 you learn the scale of ollicial sal Iries you will understand one reason vhiy honesty is an unknown quantity n Tonqui, at least, among ollicials. l'he monthly pays are: governor, 16s irofect, 2s ld; private sokliers, Od. higher ofliciais have to maintain a ,ertam d7egree of pomp. Their ap )ointmcnts are gained on the Chineso onpetitivo system. An Annamese cholar is as conceied, priggish and a1orant of all useful knowledge as us Chinese eonfrcre. Thle Annamite i nandarin has the reputation, adcord o the French, of bei'tg shrewd, cun uing, cruel and oppressi ve3 to those be eath him, aId of being subservient to kose above him, and, above aIll, to un Lorstand the (ar 4l'allend,. I see no t Cason to doubt. tihe julstice of tlie crit i isin. Not Dying ot so Fast. According to the latest data in the ossession of of the Interior Depart seut at Washington te number of In ians in tile United States in 202.000. t ian tribes receiving suppliC ffolW fIyO overnment reasonably accurate statis ius have been obtained, -I in niiking isies of goods to the IIndials the in ividual receipt of each heatl of a famni v is required. Tle accounts division C the Indian Ollice therefore po.sesse L register roll of the names of all heads f families to whom goods, up1)l)lies or unuiLies are issued by the Government. i most of the States there arn relmain 11g sm1111 commuuities of Indians, liko lie Six Nations inl New York, tie 'asteri Cherokees in North Carohuna, he Mialmis inl Indiants. &C. Ilavil)g bnal property, they maintain a tribal rganization, i'oi Indian hOlliev exor ises a soi t. of guardianshilp over them n1 the protection of their fumds, limit ng tihe contracts they may ma)1K3 and 1h0 fees they may pay to attorneys, dec iding questio:As of miembershtip in the ribe, etc.; but they are self-support ng, anid receivo no gods or supp)1lieisI r'om tlie G overnmcint. The sanme nmay e saidl of tihe "'live civilized tribes"' of ,he Indiani Territor'y,and~ of tihe Inldiansg if the Pai lic coa1st, although someit tf thle hatter' ri'ive abouit live er cent. of their subs'stenee friom the D~epartment. They are niot dependent4 11pon the Glovertnent for the supply of heir daily wants, andt contsequietttly tihe Iidiani departmnent is tnot alhe to obtin Lfiom them such minuito anid (detailed reports as aire reqjuirmed from the semi savage tribes. In some eases thie Gov srnmnenb is therefore in posse:ssionl of bettor statistics fronm bte "wvihl" tril:es thanii from suchl as are partially civil iz ed, or at least self-supporting, Leaving tile five civtdized tibes of bte Indian Territory out, of the ques Lien, these statistics shlow that tihe In (dins are nlot no0w andl for several years Past have not beeni decreasing in nlumi Lers. Tile birthts 'reluortedl in all tue tribes last year aggregated 2003; thte nutmber of deaths was 2478. An exam mtation of bte repiorts from all the Agencies ill detail shlows miany inisLtn ces of decrease; but te general result is as stated. It is nob claimed that these figures are eithler complllete or ex act: but they are, beyond reasonable doubt, sufficient to estabbsh~ the fact, that thme Indiati race, as a wvhole, in spite of dlisadlvantageous ci rcuimstances, is niot dlyinmg out. Tile mortuary customs of most of tihe tribes rendler it improba ble that many deaths shlold escape tihe knowledge of thie agent. As regards thte (death or ai relative eor frmilnd the In diani is niot a stoic; mouring for the deceasedl whlethler slain in babble or dy in~g from1 natur'al causes, is utsuaUy loud( and long continlued, and1( accoinpanmied with ceremonies likely to make every person within the sound1( of beating tom toms and1( wailing voices aware of the loss thme tribe has sustained. Over births no suchm demonstrations arc made, so thamt the error inl to figur'es given is probably that of' reporinlg too sumall ani inorease ml thie trib~al numil bers. Ib is easy to find reports from parti culiar tribes showving a decidled dlecr'ease durinig the past year, Th'le Six Nations, New York, lost 235 by death, wvhile there were only 187 births. There are 5116 Indiianls on the several reservations in New York-the Senecas, Oneidas, Cayugas; Onondaga5, Tonawvandas and Tuscaroras. These Indians are secomb rate farmers, tas g tihe Pattawatonios, Klck~apoos anid MIun8ces of Kansas, who also lost in numbers last year, the deaths among them exceeding the births by 30 per cent.; and the sanie is true of Indians similarly situated in Michigan-the ChippewasOttawvas and Pottawatomies of the Mackinac Agen. cy. In each of these remnants of tribes there was about the same per cent, of loss. These Indians nearly all wear civilized dress, and they are surrounded by whites. In the Indian Territory, however, nearly all the tribes are increasing. The agent of the Cheyennes and Arap alioes reports 324 births, 110 deaths among 0709 Indians; the Kiowa, Ca manche and Wishita Agency reports 149 births, 90 deaths. Reports from the twenty-one other tribes in the in. dian Territory indicate a small per cent. of increase in ali except two. The ever unfortunate Poncas and the Seiecas suffered a further los.s in numbers last year. Outside of the Territory, without go ing into detail, it may bo said generally that the Indians of the northern plains the great Sioux tribes and the Crows, are about stationary, There is perhaps a small increase, bit reports are not fill enough to show more than that there is no decided change. The Utes and the Mescalero Apaches are annually increasinig in numbers. Tie fhiliernio atlonig the borders of Pluget Sound, the P'uyallup, Quillehute, Ctir ('Aleno, O'Kaiiagans, &c., are slowly increasing while the s'kokoiish and Quinajiolt il [lians of the sante region report a decid ?d loss last year, Bo Unrefui nibout th Premises. We have on maiiy occasions lin going wer tle outbiljdilngs upon solne farms ioticed a great deal of carelessness in ;uarding against lmn-trap., scythes xdge-tools, etc, which might prove very laigerous to life and limb, if a kn1ow edge of the existence 111d rellmeinlbraice >f them were not at all t imes borne in iiid; or of contrivanIces where cattle 1ay be hurt. Passiig through farm mild iugs so1n time ago we came on a Astern for catching water froi the '0of, the lid of which opened in a placo vlich was passed over manly times 'very (y. On ourexpressing surprise, nr friend wonldred1 at the alarm, ,For,'' said lie '"all abi)out us are rained to such careful habits thero 'eally is 110 (anger. No one1 voiuld wver think of leaviII. the trap-Ioor >pen." This reasonig seeuins corroct Ind yet tle 1ewspapers are filled with tCecidents whichl occu1r iii co,es where 'all 'ands" are supposed to exercise lie greatest, care. soie 0110 coies in Vith a loaded ginm aid does not draw lie charge. 110 kinows how caleful 'verybody is iml handling firearis, a1nd 'et niumbihers of people die overy year' .Inply through forgetfulhiess on the nirt of some fool (in the face, too, of iu act of the Legislature lprolibit ing he handling of firearus), that the al 'cle iay possibly be loaded. A man uuie*,tLLQS.nm111 dagr0,,1mtce 'imy3'th ing loose inl Ills pocket, an1id goes brough Ils stables and11 over hisi hay tiows C1and straw-stacls. Ile is quito 11r0 that his careful habits w'il never et lhim drop on1 so thsCat somediiiig may read or lall on it, or a mo1se nibble it ad a fire ensue. But, 801110 (il y the ilole thing "goes ) uip,' 1 a1d there is no nd- to wonder how such a thin-g could io. We make a note of these things iow becaus the thsea1son has arrived viben firesu will be necessa1y1' and ith it tle 'Seatson whlen thing's take fire rom "defectivo hlues" and other acci oents. TVhese things never occur wvhero eople are really careful, but tie best tile is to so or(der thingeTs that ni matter ow careless people 1110y be, accidents rC lleXt to linpo8sible. Of cour'se any Conigressmian wvho is uiniiig (1111arters for' the c011niiig long ession1, says aL WaVinnl o 0u.n cor'resp~on lent, thtinks that the IiUitedl Suates ~overnment (100s not pay' mone iy enough (1 its (1liler, wr'litLes a coresponldent romu1 Wasingtoni. It (do)0 r'eally seem11 ;o. No colututy ini the worlid p'ays its 0vih ollios so badly. Take England 'or example. England pays notinlg to ,he mnember's of its lowver hiouse of coni tress, which every intelligenit persomn (nlows is wvrong. But En ughiid makes 1p-i other ways. Let us look into the mtbject for a monmnt. We paLy our ninister to France $18,500. Enugilnd pays her minlister to Frianico $50,000, 11nd gives himii a place1 to live in. We lpay our mniister to Enigland Sl7,500. England pays her minister to Watsilinig bon $20,000 aL year, gives hhn a groat inanlsion, f'uly 1e quipe and1(11( furnish ed, :1d( $0,000 IL year for entert ainments. England even 1pay3s her miniister to Per sia1 $25,000 a year, anud gives him 0 a1 pal a~ce. She evenm pays her repre'sentiative to flhe bleggarly court~ of G reece more thanui we 1pay our highest ofihoers. We pay our chief juistico $10 500 a year and our* associato justices $14,000. We are' just no0w makiing much of Chief Justice UoleridIge. llow maclh, dlear reader, do you think lie gets IL year in the way of saLaily? Forty thlousanid dollarsi T1heo other eight judlges of his court get $25, 000 a year each. Even tihe English consul at Newv York receives aL salary of over $20,000 IL year. General Slher man gets somethIng like $15,000 a year. General Woiscley gets about $40,000. T1hue clerk of tihe 110use (of Ilop~resenlta tives receives, I believe, $1,000 a year. TIhe clerk of tihe lower house of Parlia mnent inl En~gland~ receives about $12,000 a year. All this, mind you, in a small er country than ours, a poorer country than ours, and with less population Th'ie National Yellowvstone park em braces in its limits 3,675 square miles -mlore territory than lRhode lsland amnd D~elaware combined. It is sixty-five mules wide and sixty-five lonig. It lies minilly in the northwestern corner of WVyoming territory, but includes a thimn stipl of Idaho1 011 the wvest and Montana on the wvest and north. Thme body of it is betwveen 110 degrees amnd 111 degrees west longitute, andl 45 degrees niorthi latitude. The lowest elevation in the park is (1,000 feet above sea-level, and its l hot (mountanpeak) from 10,000 to 12,000 feet. It is, therefore, an Im mense table-land, with a surface broken Into mountain ranres. vallevs. etn. THE VERDICT -OF - THE PEOPLE. BUY THE BEST! Ma. J.0. B0A-Dear Sir: I bought the first Davis A achino sold by you over five years ago for ily vife, who has given it a long and fair trial. I ain well pleased with it. It never gives any rouble, and is as good as when irt bought. Witinsboro, S. C., April 1838. Mr. BOAG: 1 Ou wish to know what I have to Say iI regard to the Davis Machino bought of you threo ears ago. I feel I can't say too muoh in its favor. inaIldo about $80,00 within live inouths, at times running it so fast that the needlo- would et per fectly hot fron friction. I feel confident I could not have done the sanmo work with as much ease and so well with any other machine. No time lost i ildadstitig Attachments. TI0 lightest running inachine i have ever treqdled. BrotherJames and Williams' fainilles are as inuch pleased with their Davis Maclines bought or you. I want no better iachine. As I said before, I don't think too much can be said for ie Davis Machine. Respect fully, R LLEN 15T81'N50V, Fairlliid County, April, 1 S. MR. HkAG : M1ty inaciino gives ie peroot satin factionl. I flind 110 1 au11t With it. Thle attachiments are so siple. wish for nagbtter than the Davis Vertical F~eed.bete lespectfully, MR8. It. M1ILLING. Fairlield couity, April, 1883. 11 K. flo~m: I nougnt a ioavis Vertical Food ewing Machine fron you four years ago. I an elightell with it.. It never has given me any roll We, And hiias never been the least out of order.. If is aW good as when I first boughtit. I can cheerfuilly recolmenid it. Itesiuectfilly, 3ta8. 'i. J. KCIRKL6AND. Monticello, April 10. 1883. This M. to certiry thap I navo hoeot lisiug a Davis Vertle:al Peeds ewlng Maeline for over two ycars, inirtuhaeild of Mr. .1. 0. Boag. I haven't found i' l')9scssed of any fault-all the attachments aro so 411 ik'. It never refuses to work, ati l certainly tIhq igliest. rtinning in tile inarket. I consider it I firs i-chis itlchiilie. Very respectfully, AIiNNIn 31. WIL.LINUMAM. t0aklan1, Fairfield county, S. Cl. M It IloA0: I aim well pieasett in every partlcui vit I the Davis Machine bought of you. I think ilrst-class machino in every respect. You knew oii Hold several maclilles of Ihe same make to Iill erent ineinbers of otr families, ail of whom, is far as I know, are well pleased with them. Rtespectfully, Fairield county, April, IS 3. II. MO Y. Thii A to certiry wo nave nal in constant use .110 1avis A3iaciine bought of you about three years I ,Awe take il work And have nade the )r work we have to do. No puckeriigor skipping ititches. Wo can only say wo are well pleased 1i( wish no better imachine. C..ATmiEnINN WVJIl AND SisTNit. Aliril 0-5,18. I have no iault to find with my machine, and loi't wait any botter. I have made tile prico of t severa tines by taking Ii sowing. It is always 'eady to do its work. I think it a lIrst-class m11 ,hinoi. I feel I catn't say too niuch for the Davis Vertlicail Feiu ie h(ciind. h nS. TUOMAS SMiTr. Fitirfleii counlty, April, 183. AI. J. 0. DOAu-Dear Sir: it gives ile munch pleaisure to testify to the merits of tile Davis Ver Acal Footl Sewing Machine. The machine I got of Vou abitt live years ago. 1has been 1,linost, in con tnot ntiWO ever since that time. I cannot see that it is worn anly, anid has not cost, mc 0110 ceni for repairs sinca we have .ihad it. Ami well puieased and dion4' wish for aniy better. * Yours truly, 11onT. Unawvonas, tiranite Q.carrnv niear Wilmllboro 8. C. Wt' have usedlt1le Davis Verticai Foci Bewing Machline for the last lIve years. WVe would not halve aniy olter mlake at, any price. The imacinte has~ gIven us8 unboundluett satisfaction. Very respectfully, Mins. W. K. TUIINEin AND DAUGUTRSus Fitildl~ county, S. C., Jan. 27, 1888. hfaving hotught, a D~avis vertical Feed hewing Machino from1 Mr. JT. 0. lilag sonmc three years ago, and11 it hlavinig given me p~erfeot satisfaction ini every respect, asa1 iaily mlacinlo, both for heavy andl ilit sowVIng, ani iiever needed the least re pair In lany waIy, I eill ctheerfin hly recommlendt it to any~ 0on as a tirst-class imaciino in every particui lari, andi think it second to none. It is one o1 the simiplest mach:111fine mad; liy clhidreti use it with ali Clse. Tho aittachmtets arc miore easiiy ad julsitil and1 it, d1o)0 a greater range of work b~y mean1s1 of its V'erticat tFeed thani 'any oilier nma chine I have ever 80011 or used. M111.9. TfiOMAS OwINo8. Whinnsboro, i'airfield county, 13, C. We have hlad 0on0 of thme D)avis Maclilaes about four years and( have malways found it ready to do all kinds of work we have had11 occasion to (10. Can't sec thlat the machine is wvorni any, and work. as well as wveni 110w. Mas. WV. J. CiIAWYRoD Jackson's Creek, Fairild county, 8. 0. M1y wife is highlly pleased with the Davis M1a chiiie bought, oif you. She woluld~ not, take dollble wilat she gave for it. Tihe machIne has nmot been out of order sitco she had it. and she can do any kind of work 0n111. Very Itespectfully, JAS. F. Fisu. Mlont Leello, IFairlield couinty, S. C. 'The D~ayis Sowving Machline Is simply a freqts ur*O Mits. J. A. (I00DWYTN. iidgeoway, N. C., Jan. 10, 1883. ,0 i loAG, Esq., Agent-Deoar Sir: My wife has b eeni usinig a Davis SewIng Machine constant. iy for the iuast, fotur years, andi It lhas never needed any repairs and works just as wvell as when first botught. Sheo says it, wivi do a greater range of practilan work und do It easIer and better than anmy mlachino slto iias ever used. We cheerfully reconimend it as a No. I family machine, Your tru.y, JAS. Q. DAVIS. WinniSboro. S. C., Jian. 8, 1883. Mnt. IOA0 : I have always found my Davis Ma chine readly do all kinds oft to work I have had oc easion to(d0. 1 cannot see that the machine is worni a particle and~ It works as weid as when new. Itespectfully, Mnfs. II. C. (100DINO. W~ininsboro, S. C., AprIl, 1883, lai. B0AG: My wife has been constantly timing the0 Davis Machin bought of you about five year. ago. I have never regretted buig it, as it is always ready for any kInd of famil sewn, eIther lieavy or light. It is never out of fi or needing e0pairs. Vr J airfld,. 0 .. Mareh. 188*.