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be ~eWR Sanb Ietatb. TR I-W EEKLY EDITION. WLINNSBORIO. S. C.. NOVE~MBE~R lb, 1883. ESTAR1JRR Rn 10a HiE VERDICr DIT THE PEOPLE. 4UY THE BEST! n. J. 0. l5oAo-Dear Sir: I bought tile first vi Machine sold by you over live years ago for wife who ias given it a long ant fair trial. I well pleasied with it. It never gives any fouble, and is as good as when first. bought. J. W. BOLICK. Winnsboro, 8. C., Aprli 18I3. r. IloAG: oiu wist to know what I have to say 4#'regard to the Davis Machine bought of you three ars ago. I feel I can't say too much in Its favor. ladie about $80,00 within live months, at tlines uiIng it so fast that the needle would get per !-tly hot from friction. I feel confideni I could t have done the same wvork with as nmchn ease d so well with any other iachine. No time lost w ajusting attachMinents. The lightest running Iachine I have ever treadled. BrotherJames and illams' fatnilies are as much pleased with their avis Machines bought or you. I want no better achime. As I id before, I don't think too uch can be said for tile Davis Machine. ltespectfully, E.LLN STRVEMNSN Fairfleit County, April, 1883. Mar. HOA0 : my menine gives ine perrect satis tioni. I ind no fault with it. The attachments re so simple. i wish for no better than the Davis ertical Feed. Itespeet fully. MIL. Ii. MIf..No. Fairfield county, April, 1883. . 11oAo: I ooiigntt a mi Vertical Vced - W Ing Machine from you four years ago. I am lighteit with it. It never has given me any o utle, and has niever been the least out of order. t Ia as good is when I first bought it. I call heerfully recominenil it. Ltmspect fully, Miis. M. J. KInKl.AND. Monticello, April S0. 1883. This is to certify that I Have been using a U.tvis ertiial F11eed Newing Machine for over t w yuars, urchasei of Mr. J. 0. lo.g. I haven't foutnd i ' 2mseased of ally failt-all the attachinits aro s. P eple. It neverlefuses to work, and is ceriainly ghtest rnmng in tho market. I consider it a first class macoine. Very respect fully, MINNIH M1. WVILI.N(JUA M. Oakland, FairflelI county, 8. C. MIt I SOAG: I an Wet plteael in every ptictu .With the Davis Machine oiought of you. intink A. irst-uhts i inaciiine lII every respect. Y ou kno w -on sold several inachiincs of t he mame niake ti) dill erent miieirs of oir lainilies, Il of whmoin., as far is I know, itre weli lteased witn them. i(cspectfilly, -MRS. M.N1. L oul.KY. Laitrilidi coituitv, April,. issu. 'I is isto -eritify we miove Ia i not coiulmit. titt the Davis Macitue bought of you about three yearsA *go. A.s we take in work, and have inado tic price of it several tines over, we don't, want a'ny better miachint.. It is ilwiys ready to do any kind of work we tiave to do. No prickeringor skipping Mitchels. Wecitiionlyfsity we are well pleas.i1 $11( wish no better inachine, CATnMuTNE WYiLIF AND SISTERt. A prli 25,18. I haveno tanlit to 111n1 Witi ly ilCIt It,and don't wa.t ainy botter. I have in Ie U10 pric. of It severa times by taktig lit setvig. It is al ways feady to do Its work. I hink it i irst-class :n1 Chine. I fee i Ican't say to, itiish for the ii tviS sti"cal Feed Machine. MI. T'iotas SMITi. Fairfielti county, April. 1833. MR.J. 0. hloAU-itear Sir: it gives ine i'ic pleasure to testily to te inerits of the Davis Ver tical Feed sIewing Machtie. The ma11cinlo I got of -you about live years ago. has been almost In col atant use ever silnce that time. I cannot see that It is worn any, and has not cost me one cent fog repairs since we nave had it. Am w.eli pleaset and dion't wilsh for any better. Yours trtily, Uranite Quarrf, niear Wlinsboro 8. C. We have itsed tile D~avis Veiticai F'eeil ewig -MachIne for the iast five years. We would nat have any othier intake at, ally price. Thie Iitmaine has given us unboundetn satfsfiict ion. Very respectfully, *Mns. WV. K. TiUinNitt A~i N u Aion~su Fairfild cotuity, 8. C., .Jaii. 27, 188. liavin~g luoughit a 1)avis Vertical lFced Sewing M.achine fromt Mrt. J. 0. Bong soine three yeairs *ago, andli it hiavinig givenl mei perfect sattisfacttoit ifn every respect asua aiitlily miacine, ;)oth for lhen y and lighit sewing, ainul iever needti the feast re paIr i any way, 1 can eierfully recommntid it to r s a lirst-elass imachlie itt e very partictu ni 'itnk it secondi to noiie. It is one of fths 'chines made; liy chiltiren tiso it with e attacimeits are more caisiy ail ed an t, does a greater rainge of work by a ' Vert icaf t.eed thtan any other inn en~ -de A slave ever seit or itsei. Mins. TuIOMAS OwINUE. Winnsboro, Fairiieldt county, 8. C. Wec have htad one or thle l)avft Maconines about four years anti have atlways fotund it ready to do all kInds of work we itave fiad oconsion to <to. Can't see that, the nmachine Is worn any, anld works us welf as wihen inew. M as. WV. J. Cn A WionD, Jackson's Creek. Fairfieldi county, S. C. Mty wife IsaIhighlfy leased with tile l)avls Ma 6 ohino bought of you. She wottfd not take double 'What she gave for it. Th'ie mnachino has not been out of order since alto had it, and silo cian do any kind of work on it. Very Itespiectfutlly, JAti. F. Fase. Monticello, Fairlield counity, 8. C. Th'fe 1avis Sewing Mtachilno i almuply a treas w4Y Sius. J. A. GooDW YN. 4,J . O Ati, Estq., Agent--I)ear' Sir: My wtfe has ocen nteing a Davis Sewing Machine conistanit any repairs aii i works jutst as well as when first bought. Slie says it vili ufo a gtreater rang. of prautical work and dlo it easier andm better thatn any maiichinle site nas ever tused. WVe checerfully recoinmmln it as a No. t family iiachine, Your trti.y, ,JAB. Q. l)Avis. Wiunsboro, 8. C., Jan. It, 1883. . D0.io I hanve always foutnd my l)avls Ma binie ready~ (d0 afi luinds oftto work I have had 0o Gallon toile, I catnnut, see thiit the inacline is worn a particle itnd It works as waif as wheni new. Recspectfullfy, Mlits. It. C. GooDiNO. Wiiiushero, 8. C., A pril, 1e88l, Mu. liMO: My wife hats been constanitly using the i)atvis Maichiine bought of ott about five yeari aso. I have never regretted buymitg It, as it, ii aliways ready for any kind of fttnmIly sewing, either iteavy or ligit. II is niever out of six or twoumg ,tepars. Veryrepcfly .b'airnanlt. 13. 0.. Marah. 1888. PEIAOE. They all shall pass; the radiant days Song-threaded, flashing quick with light And thoso that, veiled in glooniful haze, Crep on, slow-pulsing, to the night. Upon its outward wave, the last Will float us to the tranquil sea, Where, all the storms forever past, Shall pt-aco in tidal fulness be. There no harassing care shall fret, Nor over vague foreboding chill, Shall fall no shadow of regret; Shall Jar no dissonance of ill Beyond tho tumult, flerce and rude, Of earthly loss and earthly gain, Beyond the soul's disquietude, Beyond the body's mortal pain. In all our loneliness we wait, In all our weariness we hope; The harbor of the Goldon Gate Before our longing oyes shall ope. With broken mast and shivered spar We drift adown the darkling sea, But shines before us like a star, O God, our home, our peae in Thee. T11 E, LAWYER'S SHORET. It was in a luxuriously furnished room where a glowing grate threw genial light and warmth upon the occu pants, that General Langton, lawyer and millionaire, listened with bated L'reath and pallid cheeks to a low and melodious voice that told a story of a ire. The speaker, a beautiful young woman of about thirty, yet ten years younger than Mr. Langton, reolined in a low cushioned chair, her attitude, speaking of the ease wealth gives, but her face was lull of the deepest anguish, as her lips recounted her story. "You love me," she said gently, yet sadly, "and I love you as I never loved anyone before, although I am a widow. That you knew, but clid nou know my husband's name. By my uncle's last request I dropped it and took his with the property he left me. Do not look at mo tenderly, Gerald, do not shake my voice or my heart, for when you know who I am you will not repeat the offer you made me, which Heaven is my witness I tried to avert." "Let you conscience be at rest there," said her listener, in a grave yet tender voic; "3 ou have never given me one hope, Maude. By what instinct I knew that you loved me I can never tell, sometlig in your eyes-some tone of your voice betrayed you If, as you say, somethmng in your past life does separate us you have been no coquette to torment mu)e with false hopes. But Mltaude, tell me again, whatever stands betwcen us-you love me?" I "( love you," she said gravely, ' and it is bec iuse I love you that I will not. .L you link your honorable name with i* the wret'h who was my huia. b:ul. I wi vory young-not 0'intoin when lie came to make a visit to some (r;euds living at Grasabank, Uncle Richard had a country seat near the village. I first met, Alexander at a pic ume, where ho was tho very lifo of the party, everybody's cavalier, courteous to ail, lull of wit and auimation and ser vice to all. I believe every girl on the grouids tlought she had captivated him, his attentions were so well divided and yet so impressive to each one0, He claimed to be no more than a salesman in a large wholesale house with a good sal Iry. but lie had tho manners of a genteinau of good ducation and the most perfect beauty of face, and form that I ever saw in a man. It was not long before it was evident he wished co win my love, and lie had an easy task. Such love as a child of sixteen can give I gave him. lie was the impersonation of every hero of poetry and fiction with whom my limited reading had made me familiar. Sehool-girl like, I made an ideal hero, and fitted this, my first admirer, with all his imaginary perfec tions. '"From the first Unmcio Richard diq liked him, pronouncing him false and shallow, and assuring me that my per sonal attractions had not won his heart, but the fact of my being an heiress to a large property had gained me the pro test ations ini which I so firmly be lieved, "It is a painful story t') me now, Gerald. Let it suffice tnat .L have lived in a world of lelasant dreams while Alexander remained at Grassbank. When lie left me lie carried my promise to be his wife at Christmas, "I think if. my money had depended on Uncle Richard, my marriage might have been prevented by his threatening to disinherit me, but both from my father and my mother I had inherited money that made me mndependent in a pecuni-iry sense of his control or con sent. "Mest gi udgingly, however, uncle, did consent, after searching inquiry about Alexander, resulking in no wvorse report than his employers thought him| fast, idle, and just the man to be a for tune hunter. Even then my dear uncle would have protected my fortune by setting it upon myself, but with the reckless generosity of extreme youth, I refused to have this done. Never, I was firmly convinced, wvould my adored Alexander rob me ini any way. "For a year after the splendid wed ding that made me Alexander's wife I wvas very happy. I was too ignorant of values to understand that we were living far beyond our income, and enjoyed to the utmost tihe luxuries around me-the con. slant gaiety that was in such strong con traat to the school routine from whbich I had been released. "Then began a life of neglect, often of quarreling, wheni I objected to my husband's course of conduct,-hms drink ing, his extravagance, and his late hours. Still I found my own pleasure in stcy, and a renewval of some of my favorite studies, especially language and music. I was fond, too fond, of water color painting, and m nade presents to my friends of specimens of my skill in that line. "It was four years alter my marriage wvhen I was thiunderstruck by A&lexander askimg me to request a loan of money from Uncle Richard, with the informs tion added that every penny of my pro. porty was gone. "Qince then I have known that large portion of it was lost at the gain ing table. "Long bafor thin T had1 lot all law4 for my husband. Respect had died out when I know the dissipated life he was leading, and foolish as I Nvas, I-could not continue to love a man whom I de spised. I refused the errand, and brought down a torrent of such great abuse that I really expected that Alex ander would end by striking me. "Day after day the request was re newed, but I would not yield. Upon my marriage. Uncle R'chard had sold his city residence and took up a perma nont abode at Grasshank, whoro, know ing my husband to be an unwelcome visitor I never visited him. I wrote oc casionally, but the love of years, like that of father and child, had been so sadly strained by my persistence in mnirrying Alexander that even our cor respondenco was languid and common place. "I would not, therofore, write to him to ask a favor that I know would not have been necessary without criminal recklessness of expenditure and each re fusal made my husband more furious. Then came an overwhelming blow. Alexander forged a check, and drow ?2,000 of Uncle Richard's money from the bank. I don't think my uncle would havo prosecuted him, had he guessed who was the forger; but he banded the whole matter over to the law as soon as it was discovered that the check was forged. It was then traced to Alexander, and at the same time it was found that he had robbed in the same way his former employers. He lied given up all work -upon his marriage; but when lie found himself without money, his knowledge of the business enabled him to forge the note of Der kiss & Co. Even if Uncle Riceord had spared him fur my sake.this other for gery would have entitled him to penal servitude. He was sentenced to seven years, and uncle took me home full of heavenly pity and forgivaness for the child who treated nim ungratefully. "Then your husband is in prison?" said Gerald, in a hard strained voice. "No, no, he is deadl He (ied with in the first year. Uncle Richarl saw the death in a paper, and sent the money for his burial. No, I am free: but ftone the less I am the widow of a convict felon," "But none the loss' quoted Garald, "the woman I honor and love above ill others, and hope still to make my vife. It took however, more tlialn one in :erview, full of love's plentimst, to win Uiaudo from her resolution. She so ionored her lover, and was proud of his lame and the position lie had obtained jy his twaents, that her sensitive nature. thrauk from even the shadow of her Lisery upon his life. EIat the victory w:- ~~ .t 14 an tie lawyer walkfet lhom one evnuig 'ull of a proud, glad joy, for Maude had .hei promised to be his wife. "if you are willing to take Alexander [lull's widow to be your wife," she maid, "T will not oppose you any longer, for I love you with all my heart." He had no thought but of the glad riumph when he turned up the gas in his office. He was in the habit of mak Lag a late visit a here before going up to his bed-room, in nase notes or messages were left for him. One lay there on this evening, a shabby looking onve lope, but directed in a bold, handsome hand which lie reeagnized at once. He tore it open. Aftu.a few wordi of introdutioa, the noto ran: "-'ou did the best you could on my trial, but the facts were too strong for you, 1 have now a last favor to ask of you. I die, as you know, at noon to morrow. You, as my lawvyer, can see me at any time. Will you come as soon as you rceive this and win the grati tudle of the man you know as JAMRs Fox?" "T'he main I know as Jamnes Fox," muttered the lawyer, "the smooth, plausible scoundrel who actually made mec believe him innocent of thme hideous murder for which ho was coinvicted. I can iind extenuation for some murders, but this cold-blooded assassination of sn 0o(d man for mo'ney was only revolt ing. How he deceived me, though, for a time. And how lie exulted over his success in doing so when lie sawv facts were too strong. Shall I go to him? I suppose I must, It is still very early."' It was not yet midlnighit when Gerald Langton was usheie.l into the cell of the man who, ini a few short hours, was to meet the extreme penalty of the law for the worst of all crimes. Yet there wvas nothing revolting ini the appearance of the criminal, His dress was neat, his hair carefully ar ranged, his moustache faultless, hisI hands white- and refined looking. IHe rose fromitho seat upon the bed as his lawyer entered the cell. "I1 knew you. would come," he said courteously, "though you were offended at my want of frankness. Well, that is all over? Tou will not refuse the last request of a dlyig man, Mr. Lang ton?" "Not if 1 can grant it, " was the reply. "This," said the murderer, is not my first offence against the law. Some years ago I was sentenced to a term of years for forgery. By a strange acci dent I escaped the penalty. On the same dlay James Fox was sentenced to two yea.rs for pettty larceny, and we were sent together to prison. James Fox-my companion understand, not myself-was deranged, bitt his lawyers had not been able to save him, as his abemration was not alwvays apparent. When we were upon the books of thme prison, imagine my amazement when my fellow prisoner gave my name for his own. Like a flash I saw thme advantage to be gained by the deception, and a1 lowedi the error to pass, My companion committed suicide, and I escaped with two years' imprisonment instead of seven. But 1 feared recognition, and went t o Canada. There I lhved by my wits until a year ago, when I returned to try to raise money for my wife, and thought I saw an easier plan by corn mittang the crime for wvhich I (lie to morrow. But I want to see my wife. I have wronged hier-I robbed her--but heaven is mny witness,I love her. When i was In prison she dropped my name and took her wn again. So it Is nol for Mrs. Alexander Hull youl must ask; but Mrs. Maudo Temple." Was the room reeling-the coiling falling-the wall closing around him? Gerald Langton felt as they were, as tie name fell upon his ears. Maude his Maude-the wife of this oool villain who talked of his hideous crimes as if they were ordinary events? Well, he knew that to carry this mal's message was to separate himself from Maude for ever. Never would she let him marry the wilower of a murdereri Very rapid ly all the terrible facts passed one after the other, and he said: "If you love her why add a misery to hcr life? She mny have lived down the old pai',youcaused her, why, for selfish gratification, will you make her whole ife a vitseryl" "She was my wife! I wonad bid her farewell." ''She is not your wife. Your own crimes have released her from any alle giance to you." "You know her?" "Yes! I know what she has suffered and beg of you lot her still believe you died years ago." "She is happy?" "Searoaly that. Such wounds as hors never heal entirely, but it is cruelty to tear them ope)n when they alo quiet?" "Has she married?" "No! She is still your widow.". "It is hard to deny myself one more Eight of her face, and the hope I had that she would say she forgave me.' "Think of her, not yourself." Every throb of Gerald Langton's heart was pin to him, but Alexander Hull sat in moody silence, evidently re luctant to- give up his wish. At last he spoke. "You have been very good to me. Tell me, now, if you have any personal reason for your request. Perhaps you love her!" "I -dol" was the brief reply. She has promised to be my wife." "Then it will be James Fox who is hanged to-morrow! I meant to give my real name, but I will carry my secret to my grave. It may be in another wor:d that the little last self denial' will be a plea for me. Go now. You may trust me." He kept his word, and Gerald Lang ton his secret. When Maude, a few weeks later, be came his wife, she little guessed the terrible ordeal which lie had spared her or the added disgrace that belonged to the name she had given up. Tobacco. A to'acco use'r says: The Asiatic, Hu far as ly obscrvattion goes, never sii'ke-s his tobacco pure. The simph leaf is too stronir for hii: and his tP'' for sweets IeLeaus n11 to I X i, W111h SBgar, u C$ue. or honey, and-in the case of the luxuri Ous, notably the young Mohaniinedau "awvells"-to perfunic and qualify the mix ture witti paste of roses and spices. When ready for the pipe it looks like crude opium, i tenacious black and when kindled gives out a faint sickly odor, surprisingly tenacious and penetrat ing. A. 1-indoo, smoking his hookah, or even the plebeian imbhie-bubble, can be suielt out from a long (listance as the lurk ing servant often flids out to llls Cost. Apparently unconscious ot the far-reach ing properties of the scen', lie will squat just around the corner to have a quiet smoke with a friend when lie ought to be about his work; and retribution, guided to the spoft by the nose, suddenly overtakes him in his fancied security. The virietics of tobacco grown in the East are chiefly "'Siiraz" and "[itakia;" a-id though they differ in degrees of quality, they are very seldom above mediocrity for the European teste. 'There is no preparation of the leaf worth call ing preparation; for the Oriental smoker depe~nds upon his p~arucaesar touac connist or his own servants to mix up the comp~ound to suit his own taste. The flavor of the actual leaf itaelt, therefore, goes for litle. When away fro~n their own country, however, ti'e natives of India will change their habit, and smoke the pure leaf--as, for instance, ini lhe sugar plantations of Mauritius, where I have se(.ni the coohie smnoking original Ic >kmng cigarettes of his own manufacture. lBut the most surprising specimens of the seif-made cigar are to be found among the cmiancipated negroes of that earthly P'ara dise, ih' Beychelles Islands. TIhere the tobacco plant has run wild, and the negro will sometimes so far bestir himself as to ordler Ihis wife to make him seine cigars; and the results are such distorted preposter cue caterpillars of tobacco as might make a .Regent street tobacconist howl. Th'le material, however, is excellent, being the best Havana or VirginIa leaf run wild, but without curing or preparatio'n of any kinid it is naturally coarse and acrid. The negro, however, likes it,, and consumes his home-rolled cigars in unstinted abund ance. Duiriug the bombardnient of Alexandria one of the hiouse s that, Eulferedl severely was thbat of llajji N'asim, tao cigarette manu facturer. But be imnprovisedi temporary quarters, and in a jury-riggedi sort of way managedl to keep abreast of the extraomrdi nar'y dlemandi which thme presenice of so many British oflicers crea'.ed. And what sup~erb) cigarettes the old [lajji made.I remember sitting with him one eveming smoking, overlooking the bombardied Squmare. and listening to hIs remimiscences of Alexandria temporis acti; and he toldi in", among other things, that one of the b~ist judges of tobacco lie had ever known was the late Sultan. And lie clapped Is hads, and a girl brouight hin a box of his Majesty's private brand, "'he Bultan;'' anmd I cartainiy foundi~ It thme daintiest,imost, ladylike smoking. But in the evening I unrolled a couple and charged my Turkish pipe-a large ambeh~r bead for mouthpiece, jcssaminme stein, anid bowvl of dhamascened clay-with the conmnts; amid wheni I had finished the pipe it seemed as if I had been smoking only the ghost of tobacco, a ime adumbration of the weed. F'amries, if they smoke at all, probably smoke "Sultan."* TIhe ,S'uenzfl Amrcanev says: "I'he idea that lightning is not so destructive in the United States as It usedl to be, because the network of railroads and telegraph wires lessen the number oi accidents, is met by the record of thc Bummer. Fatal thunderstorms have never been more common." Vice and wrongr degrrade ns. The Latest shootng. Clang! clang! jingle! banig! clink! clink! clang! What have we here? A blacksmith-shop? Not exactly that, but it is the shoeing department of the West Division street railway company, and is not the least interesting of tie many ramifications of the horse-car business. Step inside and take a look around. That good-looking man with the black moustache is the foreman, and will cheerfully explain the modus operandi here. It is not like an or dinarv shooing shop. It is much more spacious, to begin with, for a large number of horses are shod here daily; but its most notable peculiarity is the total absence of lire. No flaniug forges no wheezing bellows, no flyint- sparks' none of that liry furnace light'Llat re lieves the dingy gloom of the common smithy and marks the face of the brawny smith with alternate streaks of perspiratiou and coal dust. Here all is cold and chieerles, and the muscular manipulators of the sledge look cool and clean. Let us ask the well-dress ed foreman about this. Heat is no longer a necessity in shapiig shoes for horses," lie replied. "You see the forges which we form erly used are now Idle, and we have reduced our working force to one-half its former size. This is the result of adopting what is known as the Good, enough shoe, which comes to us already nade. The shoes are all one size, and can be made to fit the largest or smallest hoof. Here is a eample. You see it is made of the best of iron but is much lighter than the old-fasilioned shoo. The corks on the ends are done away with, and it is not so long by an ich or more. In fact, you will ob. serve that the new shoe doesn't extend back far enough to bind the frog of the foot and interfere with the froe, natur at action of the muscles and teidons in that part. It is sufliciently corked aind the absence of lio, rear corks don't interfere with its merit in the least." "But how do you make a shoe of that size fit a large foot?" The foreman picks up from the floor an old-style shoolof the largest size, weighing about two poinds. "if I wanted to 11t the foot that wore that shoe, here is the way I would do it," lie says; and stepping to the anvil lie strikes the new slioe a dozen blows with a hanimer, slreading it till the in nor semicircle is precisely the same as that of the old one. "It is now about three months," lie continues, ".since the conpany adopted this method of shoeing its horses, and the result has been found beneficial in every respect. The ball of the foot is left unhampered and a healthy cireula tion is hjermitteA, so that disease of the frequent and severe. Tien thieiffti' ence in the weight is an important item. This old shoe weighs about two IpotuLids; this new one, twelve ounces. The horses (lodon't slip nearly so much with the new ones as they did with the Old."1 "Ihow many horses are used by the west side company?'' "Aboumt Chree thousand.'' "1ow often are they provided with new shoes?" "Every two wQeks. The horses inl this barn travel eighteen miles a day; 'that is, they make three trips to State street and return. Of course their feet soletimes get in bad condition from corns and swelling, but our stock is well cared for and every precaution is taken to keep the animals In good, healthy shape. Would youlike to take a 1)001 into the hospital?" "What hospital?" "Theli hospital for ho rses. It is On the opplosite side of' the street. Conie along.'' Across the street is a large briem barn, and into it the foreman of the shoeinu g establishumien t leads the way. Th'lis is Lhe hospital. here are long rows of stalls, and in almost every stall standmis a horse, let lock deep ini wateor. "About every two weeks," explains the foremnan, "thme horses arc brought im here and permitted to standl an hour andi a half in these vats of salt, and water. The solution takes thme swell ing out of their feet amit limbs, and cools the fever', if t.here is any. When a horse's feet are in very had conditioni the brine is made extra strong, bit ordlinarily it is weak. A horse's anmkles cannot fail to puff up a little from coni-: stant travel on hard p~avenmnts." "Which, in your opinion, is the best, pavement, for car-horses-thme wood or' thme st~one?" '"The stone is now~ genmerally conced edl to be the best. Sonme people con tend~ that stonme pavemednts ar'e hard on horses, but I think woodlen ones are wvorse. Besides, horses slip less on stonme." Th'e~ FIngstair' Man, Almost any (lay an elderly man may be sedni ini the business streets of Chica go, standing on the edge of thme side walk, or even in the middle of thme roadf, gazing uip at the eaves of some prominent, building. The structure which for the time engages his atten tion invariably has a flagstaff oni tolp, bitt passers-b~y do not generally notice this, andl jumpI at thme conclusion that something (lire is happening away ill ther'e on thme r'oof, and~ it someitimies happens that a cr'owdl collects andi stand~s staring upward until thme prime cause of their curiosity, the elderly nmn, who like Saul tower's above his fellow men, moves on. lie standls six feet twvo in his stockinigs, is commnensu ratrely broad and brawniy, wvith a plentAouis crop~ of gray locks, smoothly shma, en face of a ruddy hue, eleani cut features. aindIbluen eyes as shuarp as a hawvk's. lie is a man with a history. lie walks through the streets and 1001(s at, the houses just as a gard(emner walks through his flower-beds anid looks at his roses, lie convinces himself that the flagstaffs which he has piut on top of the houses are still there, safe andm~ sound, and watches them as thieyiswvay in the strong wvind. TIhis Sin George Ifalket, anid in his little office at the corner of Kingsbury and Kinzie streets the Jferald reporter had a talk with him. Mr. Hialket was born fifty-eight yeais ago on the banks of the Tav. In Perth.. shire. Scotland, the son of a fisherman. Wheni a lad of 19 he left home and went to Manchester. There for two years he worked as a carpenter, and helped to build one of the first railroad bridges, seven miles from Mauchester. In the fall of 1846 he sailed as a passen ger on board the Orphau, from Liver pool for New York. When the vessel was 1.400 miles out fron Liverpool, laving been beaten entirely out of her course to northward by a troneindous head wind, she wai disiasted and had to put back to the Irish, Channel. There again site collkied with another vessel and had to seek shelter in Carrickfer gus Bay, on the west coast of reland none of the 275 passengers having been lost however. She went bac3k to Liver pool under a jury mast. Again young Ialket embarked, but this time on the old packet ship Rappahannock, the big gest craft, sail or steam,in the world at that time. The voyage to New York lasted forty-one days, and wheni he ar rived i New York times were very slack and the young Scotchman went back ioni again oin board a vessel as ship's carpenter. In the same capaci- t ty he irade a trip to New Oleans, the passage taking eight weeks. From there he went Ip the river to St. Louis, at that tIme the spring of 1817, a town of 25,000, and stayed there until 1848. Then ie caie to Chicago, but he could not stand the severe winter and return ed to St. Louis. Ite helped to build the ship Matilda, which was intended as a passenger ship for San Francisco. French and the other owners of the Matilda getting Into financial troubles the vessel was sold. Mr Ifalket then made several trips as ship carpenter,be tweeni New Orleans and Liverpool, on the Jaines Brown, of Boston, and on tihe Josiah Bradley. In the fall of 1859 he settled in Chicago and has remained ever since, with the exception of a few p trips up and aown the Mississippi, oil board the Great Western and the Mein pluI s. It Chicago Mr. lialket has devoted a his energies exclusively to ship carpen- d tering. and to tho making and putting 0 up1) of flag poles, artesian well buring, i poles and fenders. Ie enjoys a virtual g mionopoly of the flag pole business, be ing the only one in Chicago who carries bl it oil. i1e keeps a stock of abolut 100 sc flagstaffs of all sizes, varying in price w between $10 and $250. Since the big fire ie has put uIIp about 100 flag poles st on roofs, nearly every one of the big (I ones heing his make.. Not one of themn rc hias come down yet,despite storms,raint, W and lightning. Spruce is eXClusively g( used for flig poles. It comes from the hi Lake Superior region, and must bt di light, rough, staight and supple. Green - tunber is preferred, so that ie can sea- i soil it himself. The putting in of a gi Aice flagf I'ol r e'l'ttre 11(q-yC. skjq , - L through a hole in the roefofteiiextemnd g4 ing to the floor below, and it is thien fastened tight with pitch or braced up g( With scanting or ir'on. No accident w ,Ias over occurred in the putting in of At ais poles, though there have been a g< good m.raniy niarrvow (scape3 Wh1en tile LI derricks were too short or the pole was w not well guyed and tumbled (own. It la putting 1tp a new flag pole on the t Trilinnebuildtng recently a shutter was tc unilinged in hoistitig up tle pole. It pq fell tito the alley, but injured nobody. si As to the danger of the wind blowig ri down flagstaffs, Mr. 11alket says that a is not nearly So great is people suppose. a Tle pole being round and smooth, and c oliering no resistance to the blast, the k wind glides past it. 11 0observe the Iirtisays. V L~et, the birthday of each tmtmber of 0 the fatnuily be always renmeimberett when ni it comies. Let there be soniethring a k little out of the ordinary routitne ini the it arranrgemient of the table; cookies fash- 1] jetned as Johnny likes them best; one of Frank's favorite p~lumii puddings, or hi Julla's special liking, a loaf of ginger v cake, or a wonderf'ul lemion pie, such~ p as5 only mamma catn imake. Then there iu must be pre'sets. Somletimles people a may thitnk they cannot be affordedl; but reflect. Th'le litt~le one needs shoes,e (dresses, aprons arid many other thirtgs, f Putrchase eone or more for the bIrthday. 1t. will sceem jut,~t as much a present. to the recipients asi thtought titey were niot { obliged to have it.( Next come school-books andl story a books, a set. of furs or a pair of skates, d (should the birthday occur in the win tor,) a pretty little dlinner-basket, or, if tihe pai'rnts can af'ford1 it. a little gold band for one of thre ivhlte fingers, a nlecklace, a wvatcht with a shirninrg chiain, or' thne pony that has been wished for so long. Encourage tile little ones in giv irg to each oter, and als'o remembert father arid mnothter's birthday; believe I me, it will be bread cast. on the waters;i the (lays wvili onily be a few ore some re trns, attd there will be a never-failing supp~lly of pleasutre as long as you anid1 yourr children live. oldi Arrans Tapesotries, In the Chapelle dir Saint-Esprit of TJ.ournray Cathedral thnere are now htung some splhendid( Ar'ras tapestr'ies which date back to 1402. They were mnanu factuired at, Arras by Pierre Fere, arnd were pi'eserted to the cathedral byI Canon Toussaint Plriez. The Belgian amateurs believe thtem to bie the only extant examples of the famouts Flemish htigh warp of the early Fifteenth Ceni-t tutry. T1here were or'igmnally seventeen scenes representinlg the legend of SS. Pia6 and~ Eleurther. but three have been lost. Tihe history of these tapestries Is cur'ious. Originally they covered the backs of the cathedral stalls. They es caped tire attention of the Image break er's In 1566, but during tire last century they were removed as barbarous rub bish, torn up, and made into rugs, Whren they seemed to be no longer good enough to be ti'odden up)on, tiiey were usedl to stop some1 holes mn the roof. They have not been restored so far as practicable; and, although sadly muti lated, the scenes are still vivid and spiritedl. As worksq of art, Indeed, they are exceedingly fine. The rescued i portions cover a space of twenty-two Inetres long by two metrea wide, Dread and Butter. "It's a very clear case of negatives," he said, suimiiig up the replies which he had made to questions of him con corning a young girl for whom the problem of broad and butter has arisen. brother upon whom to rely for support? She has all four, but no one of them both can and will burdeni himself or horself with the girl. "'Would it be well for her to be thus dependent, if she might?' Not "'Is there any apparent way )y which sih can support hersolf?' Nol "'Would it be well for her to be thus independent if she might?' No'' No wonder that somebody propounds thu query, "What are we to do with our daughters?" and then devotes a whole lecture to answeriig it.. A md then I doubt if it is answered. The young girl lit question has bean >rought up in the West, in a fashion of .eckless prodigality, and not only has lot the faintest idea of the value of noiiy or how it should be handled, but tas also che idea that only the very >est and the most expensive of every. hing to cat, drink and wear is possible or her, and in these ideas her friendsjoin vho are willing to aid hor but cannot, ,nd those who could aid her but will ot. A general chorus of dismiayed lImpossibles i" would arise from allsidet C it should be suggested that she take side room in a third-rate boarding ouse at $1 per week, with table-board t $3, wash out all her smaller articles f clothing in her hand basin and wear liem without ironing, and get along pith two very chea) dresses a year iaking them horself in the evenings. Yet how olse do the thousands of f'supporting girls who have no spe ial training in any branch of lucrative tbor manage their weekly financial roblem? "I supposo," said my partner in tho mnversation quoted above, "that thero re very few positions which a young roman vlwho has no special traiining of Ly kind, can get, which will pay ten ollars a wook, and that sum would bo iLirely imadequate to the necossitiesof to 0110 i l question, evenI if she could 3t it." "Tein dolarsi I faicy that there are it few even of those who are trained > far as a girl of twenty can be trained, lie cai commnni:nd that sum.'" People who seo the young ladies who and behind the counters at our splon d city establishments which yield yal incomes to the merchant princes ho are at -their head; young fladies of >od education and evidently relned tbits and tastes, neatly and stylishly ossed, bright and cheerful in manner -people who do not know have very .the idea of the salaries which these rls receive for staiding from eight in e inormlhg till six in the eyening, and )od. nd' $6h cnfMd.' " ef qnnwln1 Well, in one of our two largest (ry )ods establishments in Boston they ill raroly engage IL now salesgirl utinless tO is a high school graduato aid hasIL a iod homo in which to live. They will ion make her sign an agreement to ork for them one year at a givoi sa ry, said salary behig $: por week. At us rate of paymont they by no means iach her "the business," as boys ex 3ct to be taught under similar cireu n11100s, nor is there aniy possibility of sing to really valuablo positiois. They rO taught merely to sell goods behind counter, anid is they reinain, and be >moe export and successful, their sa trios are very slowly raised after the rst year, but of the few who can stand to work, and wvho do not choose rather marry the first man who olfers, and rho are clever enough to be successful, ory, very few ever receive a dollar ver' $6 per week. Anid on this they uist live and be always stylish and Wop up appUonranices, bor if thuy are ot wvell dressed they cannot keep their laceel Ahl It is no wonder that we (ifton ear fearful wvhisperings of salesgirls rhio have sold that which is far more recious thian the goods on the shelves, the vain struggle botwveen poverty lid necessity. Aind the question is how can this dire vil be remecdied?' What hand is power utl enough to reach and chock it? Sewving girls, if deft-handed, clear rained, physically stroing anid dievoted a their work, may earn more--from ight to ten dlollais beinig the average alary p~aid good workers in the great ross-making estabbishumnts, but this s only after considlerable experience, nid it is dlillcult, to begin with, to get nito these places at all. it is only by greatest good luck, and bhrough very iliuential friends, that a Cirl can get ajplace in any of our lib aries; one who was recently added' to lie three or four already at the State ibrary was very fortunate, but liar pay a .but $61 per wveek. Teachers in the large cities are better )id, but a long training, is necessary, >esido unusual ability, and even then it a exceedilngly dillicult to get situations, is hundreds of normal school graduates ni every State could tall you. It is indeed a' clear case of negatives I" P'arlisaan Sholps. WrItIng or 1'arhsian shops, an auithiority ails attention to the fact that very few >eople realise the immense Dumber of econd-h'nd stores In that city. From the lue de P'arls to the ragplckers' quarter here is not a street ID the commercIal die rnets that (1008 not boast one or more such ustablishments of every grade and quality. [hey are represented alike in tbe lordly md elegantly fitted up store whose propri ~tor deals only in antique cabinets, bronses nd upholstery, old miniatures and ancient ace, and in the dmigy hittly booths stuck n a corner behind some massive building, wherein old stoves and old shoes are vend iii to whomsoever comes to buy. In the arger and handsomer shops the assortment )f wares to be found is practically lhmIt ess. All the olegancies ot a ladly's wardl robe may fill one window, blended Into a bewildermng chaos; the shoes of an opera ilancer mn another appear tangled in the lace of a cardinal's robe; an ivory-bound prayer beo)k supports a box of cosmetIcs, and a carved crucifix reposes on a sofa cushion of embroidered velvet, aide by side winh a broken opera grlass.