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T-anbI ELeIaD I-WEL EDIION WINNSBOR09 S. C., NOVEMBER 27, 1883. SALSE*88 TIE V ED1CT THE PEOPLE. BUY THE BEST! MI. J. 0. BOAI-Dear Sir: I bought tre first Davis Machine sold by you over live years ago for Jay wif who h given it a long and fair trial. I aim well pleased with it. It never lives any roublu, and Is as good as when first bought. J. W. BOI.t. Wnnsboro, S. C., Aprih 1893. Mr. BoAc: 1oul Wish to know what I have to say II regard to the Davis Machine bought of you three ears ago. I feel I can't say too mauch in its favor. iade about $80,0 within live months, at times running it so Alst that the needle would get per fectl hot from friction. I feel confideni I could not lave done the same work with as msuch ease and so well witi any other machine. No time lost lit adjusting attachinents. Thie lightest running uachine I have ever treadled. BrotherJamiies and Whilanus' families are as Itch pleased with their Davis Machines nought of you. I want no better inachine. As I saId before, I don't think too mtuch can be said for the Davis Machline. Respectfully, IO.LEN STEVRNsoN Fairfield County, April, 1888, M. BOAo: my incnuie gives ine perfect satis faction. I ind no fault with it. The attachments ale so simple. L wish for no better than the Davis Vertical Feed. liespectfully. M . it. MILLING. Fairield county, April, 1993. M M. UoAI: I ougint a loavis Vertical Feed w ing Machine froi you four years ago. I atu lighted Witli It. It never hits giveii Ime any o uble, and has never been te least out of order. tis as good as when I lirat bought ii. I can cheerfully recommenil it. itespectfully, MiRts. M. J. KIRKLAND. Monticello, April 30, 1883. Tl'his is to certify that r iiave neen tsitig a Davis Vertical Feed Sewing Machue for over Lw I years, purchased of Mr. .1. 0. Boag. I haven't found it passessed of any fault-all the attachtuents are so simple. It never -efuses to work, and is certainly the lightest running In the Uarket. 1 consider it a first-class machine. Very respectfully MINNIE I. WILLINoMAM. Oakland, Fairfield county, 8. C. Mit OAU: I am weli picasenit it every partioui wiit the Davis Machine nought of you. I think I it first-cias mnacuiine in every respect. You know .ou sold several maciites of the same make to dailerent members of our families, -ill of whoat, ai far as I know, are well pieased witi theum. Respectfully, MRs. At. II. MoDI.EY. Fairfield county, April, 1883. This isto certify we nave nil in constant use the Davis Macline bought of you about tuireo years ago. As we take in work, and have made the pi ice of A several tiInes over, we don't wanit ally uetter iachine. It is always ready to do any ind of work we have to do. No puckering or skipping stitches. We can only say we are well pleased aunt wish no better machino, CAraTsUiNE WVYLIH AND SimR April 25, 1888, I have no tauilt to 1 1 wMtt my machtino, and dot't want any better. I have mmtte tie prico of ii severa timtes by taking in sewing. It 1s always ready to do its work. I think it a irst-olass ma oitlne. I feel I can't say too much for the Davis Vertical Feed Machine. Mas. TiotMlAs SMITU. Fairdioid county, April, 1883. a . M It. J. 0. IHoAtI--Dear Sir: it gives me much ple.taure to test ify to tuo imerits of ,te Davis Ver it.al Feed Sewing Machine. TI'hie maheine I got of you abnt live years ago. hass been ainmost Il eon siant, use ever since that limo. I cantnot see that It is worn ainy, and hits not cost me one cent for repitrs since we have hatd it. Antm welt pleased an.d don't, wish i or any better. Yours truly, htoli. Untwi.onO, Glranite Quarry, near Winnsbioro 8. L'. We have used the Davis Veritcal Feeil Sewing Machine for the inst five yoars. WVe would not have any other mnaKe at, any price. 'iThe imacnte ta given us uiinundeus satisfaiction. V'ery respectfully, Mas. W. K. TlUatNlia Asp D)Auivans) Fairitoid counity, 5. 0., Jan. 2?, 1883, htavmng bought a Davis Vertical tFeed Hewing Niachilne fronm Mr. J1. 0. Boag sonmc three years ago, antd it, having givienume perfect, satistaction iii every respect, asa tamily itachino. both for hea y Litd light se wing, aind never iteeded the least, re litir lit any way, 1 cant citeerfulily recommend it, to nasy cine at a firat-class maachine' in every partdon las', aild thlink it second to none. It, is one of the simpiest. miachtins mtade; my chiilrein tuse it wit ali case. The attachmnots are more easily ad justed and it does a greater ranigo of work by means of its Vertical r'eed titan any other ma cilie I have ever seent or used. Mint. TIuomfAs Owises. Wiitishoro, Fairfihu conty, H. C, We huive had one of the D~avis 31achines about fotir yours and have always fountd it ready to do all khimda of worK we have lsad occasin to do. Can't, sue ltat the mnachilte is worn any, and works as Mas. W. J. CHAW~oRD, Jackson's Creek, Fairfield county, 8. C'. My wife is hIghly pleased wIth thso h)avls Ma cbilse boughst, o you. She would not, take dloubie t ilit, sce gave for it. Th'Ie misnolt has not been out, of order since she liad it, and site cian do ais) kistd of wvork cit it. Very itespectfully, JAM. F. FKEE. Montih lieello, leairliel counity, 8. C. Thei D~avba Sewing MachIne is simply a fuos. towMits. J1. A. Goot'wvN. ilsdgeway, N. 1!., Jan, 10, 1a83. J. O iioAo, Etsq., Agent-Dnar Sir: My wife has neon usinmg a Davis Hewing Machsine constant ly for the past four years, ati it, has never needed iany repairs andl works jutst as well as when first baught. Sho says It will tie a gfeater ratilg. of practical work tend do it ,easier andl bet~.r than any machine she nas over used. We cheerfully l ecommnend~ it as a No. 1 famIly uaolhine, Your tru.y, e JAs. Q. DAvis. Wintlsboro, 8. ('., Jan. 8, 1883. Ma. IHoAtI: I have always found my D~avis Ma chine readly dto all kinds of to work I have had o0 c~a on to do. I canunot see that the imachine is worn a particle and It works as weil as when new. Rtespectfully, Mus. it. C. GoODINU. W~innsboro, 8. C., A pril, 1883, Ma, BJOAG: My wife has been constantly using the Davis Machine boughst of you about five years ago. I have never regretted buying it, as It IS always ready for any kind of faiIly sewig, either noavy or lIght,. 1I, is never otut of ix or needling I epairs. Very respectul , F'air~old. B. O.. Mareb. 1588. BREAKERS AHEAD. Out in the dark, whore the waves roll high, And the sleepless ocean ourls and tumu bles, The pilot stares at the broad, black sky While the thunder ever nearer grutnfles. But the ship must still sail on, perforce, With none but he to guide her course. Though a warning voice through the air hath sped, And chilled his heart with Its message dread: "Take carol take carol To the windward bear. Breakers ahead! Breakers ahead! Pilot, bowarel There are breakers aheadI" Hard a starboard he puts the ship, From the line whore the dim gray surf assembles' Though white in the cold i8 his tight-drawn li) His hoart fears not, his hand never trembles. He thinks not of home, nor of life and death, Nor his mother's prayer, nor his sweet heart's faith. He moves not a runsole, he breathes not a breath, But holds right on, for the keen voice sitth: "Keep thorol Keel) therer To the windward bear. Breakers ahead! Breakers ahead! Pilot, bewarel Thore are breakers aheadi" PEARL WYLEY, A pretty little trilling warble like the twitter of a timid bird; but as the chords t remble and vibrate under the touch of the nimble i hite fingers, Pearl Wyley, the young governess, for gets her little charges standing motion less by her side, and sitting with her dreamy blue eyes fixed on the glimmer and glisten of the waves out on the beach below, she plays as one entranc ed with the wild, witching symphonies of her own creation, that seem to rise and fall sympathetically with the wild throbbings out on the yellow sand of Aylmer's Rest. As she sits there in the blaze of the sunsit her face is all aglow with beau tiful thoughts born of the music, and blended with the grand colorings on sea and sky. A shaft from the sunset strikes through the lace curtains, and circles the queenly head with a coronal of gold. "Listen Alice; who ever heard any thing so beautiful, and yet so weird? Who ii this place can play like that?" "Have you been here two days and have not seen her yet It is Eva and Elie's governess; and just think, Paul, she is only 18, a whole year younger than I an, and has to teach for a liv ing! And yet I almost envy her, for she has the loveliest face In Aylner's Rest." "Come in and introduce me; you have aroused a great curiosity to see this paragon of loveliness." "Oh, Paul, I dare not!" and there is genuine dismay in her tones. "Mam aint would Indeed bQ very angry." lie only laughs, and slipping her arm through his, fairly draws her into the room. "Aliss Wyley, ny brother, Paul EVerson.'' Pearl looks up from her suddenly aroused day dreams to encounter a pair of the blackest eyes she has ever seen; but her confusion Is only momen tary. and arising with a half-haughty grace, she bows ever so slightly, entirely ignoring the outstretohed hand. Only a few commonplace remarks pass between them, when Pearl finds some trivial excuse for taking herself and her young charges from the room. Paul's eyes followv her wIth 8 strange light in their dark depths. "Thte poor childi So young, so love 13y, anti so lontelylin Tihe tone is exquisitely tender, and strikes Alice as something more than "Oh, Paul, don't irt with her!'' she says, half pleadingly. "Mamma would dismiss her instantly from the htouse." "Flirt?" There is an angry flash In thte eyes nmow. "Who talks of flirting with hter?" Some hours later Pearl Wyley goes to her room, her heart beating strange ly', and onm her way she passedl the libra, y. Theim door is ajar, and reveals a full length portrait of Paul Everson. How often she had stood before that gilded frame, gazing on the (lark hand somne face andi the flashing eyes, that seemed restless even on canvass, till every line and~ feature was as faxmiliar as t hte face of her dlead mother. And nowv her idleal has conme in flesh and blood, infinitely hand~somner than the picture; what wofider tha t her young heart hteats f'ast, and paints its blossom ing roses on hter pure white cheeks? Thtero is to be a small social gather ing ithat evening, antd Pearl is to play a long, weary round of waltzes and quad rilles. As she goes up to dress site fids a bouquet of exqjuisite white rose buds,their creanty petals htaif unfolded. "How kind of Alice!" Three of the smallest find a nestling place in the waves of hter goldIen hair, and after donning a dress of some soft gray tmaterial, site places another cluster In the lace at her throat. T1he delicate pink tinge is still in her cheeks, the sparele in her eyes, as she enteredI the parlor by a side door andI takes the seat by the piano, whtich faces thme conservatory, and is htalf hid den from the dancers by tall vases fill ed with ferns. Paul soon weatries of the dance. Them e is only one face there hte cares to seo, and it htas been before his vision all thte evening, though the tall vases have been so artfully arranged to con ceal it. After awhile he slips away from the dancers and enters the con servatory and standing behind a branching azalea tree, watches the face that shows above tihe top of the grand piano. The flusht and sparkle is gone, andl Pearl's face is as white as the rose bud at hter throat. "Hlow tired-she must be!" he mur murhts with yearning tenderness; and lhe stretches out his strong arms as though the impulse Is strong to clasp her in them for all time. iIs his gaze magnetic? Just then the weary player looks up and catches sighfr' of the dark face framed in the branches of the azalea tree. and cace.te0* al the eyes express. There is a crash upon the piano keys, and Pearl slips down upon the floor, upsetting a rare vase in her fall. "How thoughtless of me to frighten her soi' Paul rushed from the conservatory, but others are there before him. "It is only a faint," says Mrs. Ever son, "the room Is warm, and she has played too long. Alice, call John and let him carry her too her room." "Call John?" echoed Paul, sarcastic ally. "Are there no men here, that you must call a hireling?" And, dis regarding his mother's frown, lie gath. ers the slender form in his arims and strides off like an angry giant. As the days pass on lie meets her often, but only by stratagem, for Pearl Is as shy as a fawn and tilts away from hin like a will-o'-tihe-wisp. His "shy little darling," he calls her to himself and the light shines still brighter in his handsome eyes. One day he came across her, seated on a rock looking seaward, her young charges playing at her feet. What a beautiful picture she makes! The wind tosses her golden hair back and forth, now hiding now revealing, the shapely, swan-like neck; then it blows her filmy white dress against the rock like beat ing Iwigs. There Is a sadness upon her face that has never been there be fore, and a suspicious sparkle upon hor long dropping lashes. "Pearl, darling!" A startled crimson face is turned to ward him for an instant, and then this time Pearl does not escape him. As well strive to loose the shell-pink hands from a grasp of iron. Then follows a passionate avowal of love, ringing clear and strong above the roar of the incom img tide. Pearl Is so taken aback by his vehem ence that she forgets he isa waiting for an answer. "Pearl, darling, will you be my wile?" Again her face Is turned toward him, but the sudden light that has so trans formed it changes to a look of intense pain, and the tones are almost harsh. "Sir, you are forgetting yourself; re lease my hands instantly." "Oh. there comes maninal'' chimes in Eva and Eile. "Surely you are not afraid of her Pearl? Let me claim you betore her and the world. She is proud, I know, but-" "Yes, she is proud," repeated Mrs. Everron, "too proud to countence such a terrible mesalhance as this. Paul, your father shall hear of your conduct.; and as for you-" She gets no further, for Pearl, as cool and as haughty as she, rises and confronts the 'angry woman. "You may spare your words,madam, as they are entirely unnecessary; I have not accepted your son's love, neither do I intend to. Of course this is all very unpleasant, and to prevent its reour ronce I shall leave Aylmer's Rest to morrow." And before Paul can frame a word of remonstrance she has fairly flown toward the house. How Paul never knows, but Pearl Wyley is gone before breakfast next morning, and no word of farewell has passed between them. * * * * * * "Alice, if you could only get Miss Atherton's work to do it would pay so much better, and Paul needs so many things now the fever has left him so weak." And Mrs. Everson's pale,worn face looks up from the coarse sewing upon which she has been toiling since early daylight. "I will try," is the weary answer. "Ther# is no use in trying to hide our It is an elegant brown stone front before wvhich Alice Elverson stands shivering oii that cold,wintry morning. She is ushered by a pompous footman up ,the velvet-carpeted stairs into an elegant little boudoir, and there, in an exquisite morning robe of white cash. mere and satin, standls-Pearl Wyley. Alice falls back a step in dismay; but Pearl, with a cry of joy, fairly flies across the room and clasps her around the neck. "Oh, I thought I never should find you! And to think you have come to me!" "But I didn't know----" falters Alice. "The niamo?" interrupts Pearl. "Oh that was changed by the wealthy aunL who adopted meo, arid made me her heiress. And now I am going home with you; I (10 so want to see my two little girls!" But it is of P'auil of whom she is thinking--Paul, who is still her king among men. Going to her home? Alice's cheeks burn as she thiniks of their changed positions, and the circumstances of Pearl's dismissal. Is Pearl dressing to make her look all thme more shabby? Alice watched her wonderingly as she (ions a dress of rich, dark blue velvet, heavily trimmed with white fur. She does not know that Pearl is dressing only for Paul's eyes. "~Mammna, I have bi ought some one to see you." And at the sound of P'earh's low, musical voice mn reply, the man in the next room, who has scarce ly yet lifted his own hand, springs up and sits upright on his couch. "Aly darling come back to me at last!" lhe murmurs, and falls back, halt fainting, upon the pillows. What a vision of loveliness sits by his bedside when he drifts slowly back to conscious ness! He stretches out 0110 thin, emaciated he .., to make sure the vis ion is real. It is gently clasped by Pearl, and once mo~re lie shuts lisa eyes, this time with a s(olemn conte'nt. It is only after she goes away that he learns of the groat gulf betw een them. Then he turns his face to the wall with a kind of dumb despair, and the know ledge retards his aecovery for weeks. Tihe choicest dlowers, the most tempt ing fruits, in the (daintiest of baskets, find their way to his roqm, and more than'once the donor reliev'es Alice and 'her mother from their lor.g continued watch. In his . fevgrisi murmtniring Pearl learns what is~ passing in his mind, and' the knowiedge gives her both Jov and "Yes, it might have been, but now f4 "There In no gulf that love cannot bridge over," says Pearl, softly. "oh Paul, live for my sake, for I love you, oh t love youl"y And no lovelier mistress ever reign ed at Aylmer Rest than Pearl Everson, who had bought back the family eatt, to and presented it to her husband. There they now live, and Pearl watches with infinite care and tenderness over the remaining days of the white-haired wo man who once turned her from her doors. At the foot of D04 Novis. The hotel at Banavle has a veranda facing old Ben Nevis. It is true that the veranda is a very small one, but as most hotels in Britain havo none at all, a small veranda, like small mercies, should be thankfully received. On this small veranda Is one small slat seat---a garden seat I think they call them with room for two persons. I sat down there alone intending to-watch. the clouds racing past -the upp--r half of Beln Nevis, expecting, if luck was with me, to see the top through sonu rift. The mountain rose somewhat abruptly from the lonr, level plain, stretching for so veral miles to the front and its sides were dark and rugged looking, with here and there a gray seam that was perhaps a foaming stream coming down the mountain. Up towards the top it was hard to tell which was the ,iow and which the white clouds, although the latter went racing by and the former was still enough. My attention was called from this sublime scone by what G. P. It. James would style two solitary horsemen, who slowly approached, and whose jaded animals ednie clamp, chnip over the canal bridge just ahead. The fact that one rode some distance behind the other would have indicated to .Jaies that the furthermost was beneath the other in rank, but to me it only indi cated different stages of drunkenness. As they came along that graveled road up to the porch of the hotel, I saw that the forward man wanted to go on and the other to stop. "Hoot, Tonald," said the first, "ye'll ae mare than eneuch already. Whut Ur wull ye pe takin' more earco than there's room pelow ta pit it. Cot, yer liartly aple ta stick on the beast what Affer." The other to show that lie was per Cectly capable of managing his iare zave savage tugs on the bridle now on this side and now on that, crying, "Huts, wumman, what ails ye," till the bewildered brute 4han't Ainow in which direction it was wanted to turn. At each tug it seemed a miracle that the horseman did not instantly become a pedestrian. However, In spite of wobbling about, lie kept his position, xndk shouted at the hotel. The porter who had met us at the boat came out and said, deferentially: "What is your wish, sir?" "Bring me a 'lash o' whushky." "Yes, sir. Will you step into the [iouse sir?" "%ull Ah step into the hoose? No, Ah'll no step into thehoose. Bring inu a glash o' whushky." The other horseman, seeing that it was impossible to moderate his friend made a remark about it being the one going and coming, and so ordered a glass for himself, with an air of resig uation. He drank off his glass without any trouble, but the other had hard work keeping hinself on the back of the patient mare that stood with head hang mig almost at the road, The porter stood with the glass in his hand wvait ingr for thme rider to) mir t omflnut amount of stability to enable him t toss oif tihe lquor. Grasping thie man with his left hand lie reached out the other tor the glass, mur'murinig all tihe while "H~and own ta that whusky; hand own ta that whushky; hand own ta that whusky," and so on a dozen timies, re peating the same phrase, while both porter and rider held on to the glass. Suddenly the Lorseman shouted at tile top of his hoarso voice: "(Gie me that whushky." And getting It to his lips without, spilling a drop, quickly upset ting the mountain dew to the place It was due lor, hanided back the glass and then hung on with both hands into the gray inane until his equilibrium sort of seted itself atter the unusual exert in. As lie rested thus he loudly snmackedi Lais lips, anti seemed to relish the draught Lexceesdnligly. Tinon with a spitefu Ltug at the reins lie urged his mare down the road, looking as he disappeard like a shaky pole balanced upright on theo pan of a conjurer's hand. I sat bn the benoh until darkness set In, but could not get a glimpse at the top of Ben Nevi, TPhe procession of clouds that kept hurrying by c3omiplete ly battlied all curiosity. Next, morning, ho wever, all was clear, and the old mountain showed a white head to the rising sun. The top is flat, and after all the mountain looked better with the clouds hiding its bald head, for the Inagination is sure to picture lien frevis nmgiier than it Is. At 8 in the mnoring the steamer on the Caledonian Canal starts for Inver ness, and bebore that hour 'busses with passengers from Fort W iliam can be seen coinig up the long, straight road, that appears to come from the foot ot lien 4evis to the canal. TIhe Caledonian Canal, whielh cost a million ponids, stretches in almost a straight line froin ianavie to Inver not s., Is sixty-two miles long, and of this distance tlinrty-eiht miles are lakes. T1'ie tril) 1sone that rivals the Rthine in tbeauty. It excels the Rthine In the nteighit of the Ben Nevis group of moun tains, in the width of the lakes, in the narrowness of the waterway in some places, In the clearness and depth of the ochs, and in its waterfalla. There are not so many ruins as the Uhine has to show. but those that are there are full of historical interest and are as pict~ur esque as can be iound in any country. Passengers who go over this delightful route, sail in what Is practically a royal yacht, for the Queen ad her party en joyed the scenery from the deck of the uudoller years ago, and I believe her ajesty chronicled het admiration of thme tr19 2n the9 book on the Highlands. Exponuive Match Safe$. Two ladies, one elderly, the other young sauntered to a counter in Tiffany's and asked to see some pocket match safes. "Of any particular kind, or at any special price?" the salesman inquired. "No. We waub to select one from the prettiest you have," the young lady replied. The salesman showed several in bronze with raised designs in silver. One of the designs was a cluster of small growing daisies and a bug hover ing over it. The salesman pressed a spring, the top floy open, there was a crack and a flash, and a wax match stood bolt upright ignited. The hingo on which the lid worked was perforat ed, and by a peculiar spring the malch inimediately beneath the perforation was thrust through it and ignited by the friction. "llow much is this?"' the elderly lady asked. "Twenty-flve dollars, madam." "Oh, mamnna," the young lady said ill an undertone. "I don't care to got a match sife as cheap as that for him." "Let mn1 s0e some1 other designs," said the elderly lady. She was shown siome more in copper, with raised letters and nionograins in silver, and at about the sain price. The young lady shook her head nega tively at these, and also at some beauti ful safes of fine tortoise shell with silver clasps. "4You can have initials in silver or gold oil these," the salesnuin remarked. "oland on theso of alligator skin." But none of those was satislactory, andi the sahisman broughit tmi anotlir, saying: "These range from $50 to $17-5."1 The tumost tlxluesive one was a safe of gold bettent and himped so that it look ed like rich ore. A diamond suik in 0110 of the luimps indicated thU positioin of the spring. The cleapest Wias Of beaten silver with a ruby. From the lot the young lady selected one1 in hen ten gold, with burned golb designs and a sinall diaiond. It cost $125. A man looking through the entire lot would have undoubtedly selected that in copper and silver fi-st shown as the most tasteful and practicable. Diraminmg. "ilistances have lately been des cribed of remarkable formation or per version of dreams at the instant of wak. ing. Allow me, says a correspondent to offer you the following, which was vividly impressed on my mind, and whicn I still remember with the utmost accuracy. In thei suminor of 1882 when an undergraduate of Trinity Col. lege, Cambridge, I was permitted to re side in college rooms during the sumumer long vacation. As firos were not want ed in. our sitting-rooms, it was custo mary for each resident's bed maker or other ofilcer to carry his water kettl- for breakfast and tea to the College kitchen, and bring it back with boiling water. On one occasion I had overslept my usual hour, and I dreamed a dream. I was at the gate of a country farnyard well known to m1e, and there camne a long procession of horsos, asses, oxen, hogs, sheole, and all the animals usually to be found mn a farimyard, followed by a no: th-country drover with his plaid or maudo crossed over his shoulder, who walked ipl) to mo and said, 'Sir, I have brought your cattle.' In an instant I perceived and actually heard (so inti mately wore the auditory sounds and inteollectual interpretation intermixed) that my bednakor was at my door call ing to me, 'Sir I have brought your kettle.' Tn'e hearing had been conm fam;l thern h)w beo no rmi but there had been imiaitanieous vigor of creative imagmnation. An admir able instance of the same kind is dles cribett in the last chapter of Scott1's 'itob Rtoy.' Scott appeoars to have been ini some1 measiiure a studlent of dremiis. I refer with pleasure to tihe dlescription of Fitz. James' dIreamir, after a day of labor and an evening of excitement at the end of the first, canto of 'ThoLmeady of the Liak,.! More F'reneni Fretendere. The children of the pretender Nann dorf, a Oerman watchinaker, who ro p~resented himself as the son of Louis XVI, have addruessed a letter to the L'renoh nation beginnmng" Frenchmen," an which they deny the claim of tihe late Oomte de Chamnuord, or of the present 'rmnos of tue llousie of Orleans to be coide~ifred the heirs of the Fireohl throne. 'They sign their names "Liouis Charles do lBourb~on," "Charces Eidmond do Blourbon," andl "Adelberth (d0 Bour 001n," the last being a Captain in the Dutch army. TIhey allege that the sovereigns who have governed FLrane 1793$ haLvO deceived the people in eon coaling from themi the fact that the un ortunate son of Louis XVI was saved from the Tomp~le where ho was placed in charge of dmmon, the cobbler. Tmns, they say, is nowadays a maitter of his tory. Tno usurpors of the legitimate cignts ixavo sacriticod his interests to (heir cruel ambitions, and the fact that theo have gao unrecognized has given rise to the parties whboch divided the people, toma' them asunder and drag ,houm to their ruin. They wish to pro Cest against the theorfthat the dleMcond aints of Philippe Egalite are heirs to (5ne dhrone in order that thiey may pro. serve France from the lowest of degra dations, kPhoeant Brooding in Enigland. As indicating what is annally aohiiev ed in pheasant breeding, it has boon calculated that 175,000 of these beauti ful and palatable birds are annually sold in London, while In all probabihity an equal number is Bold in the prov moos, making a total of 850,000 pheas ants. Daurmg the progress of the bat tues very large numbers of these beauti ful birds find their way to the. dealer., so that every now and then a glut is experienced, on whioh ocoasions a fine pheasant can be obtained at a very olleap figure.-half a crowni or even les money; indeed, a buyer for a popular London restaurant used to pick them up *ev now and then at a hillin each. Making straw Draiw. The trafilo in straw braid is one of the most important of the minor in dustries of Detroit, and is carried on almost exclusively by the French p'o. ple, Of the millions of yards that are bought in small lots to betroit every year not more than ono per cent. is made by native Americans, or in fact by any oxcept the class mentioned. For miles up and down on both sides of the river, but chiefly in Canada, thero are scores of "Muskrat French" who devoto their little plot of ground to raising wheat, the straw of which is utilized as their main source of incomo. "I don't think it is very generally known," said a prominent dealer in Detroit, "that in this city is the most important market for straw braid in the United States. The business has been carried on here for over half a century, and although the manufacture of hats is not so extensivo as it was some years ago, the amount of braid handled has not diinished, but has rather increased. When I went into the business, over forty years ago, Machinaiw straw goods, as they are technically called, were almost unknown in the Eastern States, and for a long timo after they cane in the market Detroit and one or two other points had a monopoly of the iiianifacturo. Now, my factory here is tho only one, aside from those attached to the largo retail hat establishmonts, west of .New York, the braid being bought by brok era who scnd it to Boston, Philadelphia, New York and other easterit manufac turies." "What locality does most of the Do troit braid como from?". "Petito Cote, below Sandwich, and in the vicinity of Tecunseh, near Lako St. Ciair. Thoro are small settlements at these points, whose inhabitants for a generation back havo dependod oi the sale of braid for a living. Both sexes and all ages make it, and the straw used (generally wheat, though basley and ryo straw arc sometimes substituted for an inferior grade of braid), is gathered just before the grain is ripe. Those who do not raise it themsolves, go back among the farming community and buy from half an acro to an acre of growing straw, often paying much more than the grain itself is worth. The heads have to be out off and left behind, tl'.ough there ain't many farmers who v/ouldn't jump at the chance to throw in'the whole crop if they could sell all the straw at the price that is asked for an acre of it. It is surprising what money these Froneh people can get out of a small patch of straw. I can recall one instance of a man who raised eight bushel of wheat on half an acre, and sold $850 worth of braid that he and his family made from the straw. The women cut the straw into pieces about eight inches long, tie it up in small bundles, and pack it away in garrots and other dry places." "Braid it at their leisure, I suppose?" "Yes; during the winter all the fain ily, from the children to the grand parents, work and turn out an amount in a few hours that would seem in credible to a person not used to the business. Of the seven-ply straw braid 50 to 75 yards is a fair average for one day, and there are experts who can make 100 yards in 12 hours. Strong active men work at it, and frequently make twice as much as they could choppig wood at the ruling wages." "It there is so much money in it, why do not other classes mako straw braid?" "That is a question I've never been able to answer, but it is, nevertheless, a fact that they (ion't. Even the Indians wiia ali their ski ii and taste in making basket wvork, mats, etc., have never to my knowledge braided any straw. At least, they never sold it in Detroit. The impression prevails in the East, from the word 'iinokinaw,' that the Indians all make it, but the nme, like a good many other commnercial appel lations, has no sectional signIficance, and its origin was purely accidtentaL. About 50 years ago a i'hiladelphia hat ter while returning from a trip to St. Mary stopped over at Detroit. lie saw somne of our hand-mado straw hats for the first time, andl though lie wasn't very favorably impressed with thenm hie invested in a dozen, as lie said, 'just for luck and to see what the natives down in his own State would think of them.' When lie got home ho displayed them in his show windowv, and soon an 01(1 Quaker dropped in." "What does thee call this now head gear?" lie asked picking up one of the lot amdd examimed it. "i'he hatter had never heard any proper name applied to thorm, but after a monment's pause replied: 'Mack inaw hats, Tihecy are worth $3 each." "The dozon sold1 rapidly at that price, and wore the b'egmning of what was soon an important trade in the East The Philadelphia man in ordering his goods always referred to them as the 'Mackinaw hats,' andt the name thus became fixed. "'Arc imitation of the Muckinaw hats ever put ini the market,?" "Yes, any amount of them, and the worst of it is that the shoddy can be made more attractive than the genuine, and the average customeor at retaiA stores couldn't to save his neck tell the difference, icee straw goods can be sold at a large profit of 50 per cent, less than Mackiaw, amid the linocent purchaser never knows but~ that lie is getting a staple article until lie is caught out in the first shower, and then his hat loses its starch. It begins to wilt, and soon has to be cast asie. A genii ine Mackinaw, whi sh never sells for less than $1,50 can be ripped up and bleached half a dozen times, while the snide article, being machiuie sewed, is spoiled as soon as It begins to rip. And that's the only way in which one not an export can escapo being gulled, if the braid has been stitched by hand, set It down as of value. If mnacbino stitched, It is shoddy without question," "Row mxany yards of braid are re quired for a hai?"' 'Depends atogether on the quality of the straw and size of the hat, A good, oommion hat can be made fromt 18 rards o ie atraw braid. while in the wide-rimmed flue straw hat 100 7ards and over are used. Yes, there is a duty on the braid, but it has boon a puzzle to me who gets the benefit. Tho rate has been 20 per cent. I can hardly blatne some of these poor, wretched people, who have to scrimp and pinch to make both ends moot, for sometimes trying to smuggle their braid. It's odd, though to see the childish measures they will take in try ing to pats the lynx eyed ofilcials on the wharf. Women and girls will souno times hide 250 yards of the braid on their persons, wrapping it around the body and limbs and sticking it down their backs, and a custom ofiloer only knows where else. They will wobble off the ferry-boat hardly able to navi. gato in a strafght line, and of courdo are caught. Even little girls, hardly in their tecun, will hide, as they imagine, several dollars worth on their persons, never dreaming until they are nabbed that maybe three inchos of it are pro. truding at the back of the neck. Tho List Ritos. A traveler says: "On the evenin:g of the first day's journey, we stopped at the village called Itiniba, near the point whorte the Congo beglus to narrow (own fron it breadth of nine or ten miles to a few hun dred yards. Here, at Itimba, we found the people just auout to proceed to the ob. sequies of a dead follow-townsmen, an old man apparently of some social standing. The 'chimf and his subjects were in sone perplexity. O late year, it has become 'do rigeur.' since guns were introducei into the Upper Congo regiona, to fire a salute over the body of the defunct person, especially if ie bo or any distinction; and the inhabitants of this village, possessing only one pitiful old flintlock among then, aid that terribly out. of repair, were hes titling when we arrived as to what course they should pursue-whether they shouhl charge and fire this one dilapidatei gill and risk its bursting, or whether thet du Ceased should be allowed to wend his wiay to the land of spirits inhoniored and titin hnted. Soning their perplexity, latiennn Orban volunteered to fIre of f a round of twenty cartridges from his 'Vinchester.' ''lhe chief and his people were delighted. Could there be greater honor for the d( ceased than to receive his farewell saiute at the hands of a white man with his wonderful gun from Mputo-the mysteri. ous region 'beyond the sea-the unknown -perhias heaven itself? (for are not these white men sons of heavent) 80 thought the old chief, as lie led us to see the corpse. Witi an earnest, pleading t me, lie took our hands, and said: 'Oi, you who are going home,' and he pointed to the pale and peacetul evening sky, 'you will send hun baok to us wil you not? You will tell him his hut ts waiting for hint, his wives will prepare his mamoo white as tcotton cloth, and there shall be hialaafu in plenty, and a goat killed. You will send hini bck, will you not?' This expression ot feeling quite took us by surprise. Or dinarily the African chief is so stohd, so thoroughly material, that one never expects fromi hii anything like sentiment or poetic idos. ~ We tried as gently as possible-for he appealed to both of us in his distress to explaini at once our utter Inability to reanimate this hidous corpse with the breath of lite, and to encourage hini with vague hopes that all was not in vain, but lie shook his aged, grizzled head sadly at the confession of our powerlessness face to face with death. The body of the dead man had been pireviously dried and smoked over a slow tire, so that the flesh except upon the hands, was shrunken and reduced to a leathery covering round tho gautnt hones. The face had been gaudily painted with scarlet, yellow and white pigments, and the whole body wasi mcrusted with the red dye of the camnwood tree. Round the nose and mouth was wrapped a band of cloth, aind gay-patterned cottons swathed the body. For sonmc reason the hands were quite plump and well covered with flesh, as in life. The (lead man had been placed in his grave In a sitting posture, many layers of nativo cloth lying under hun, andl ready to cover him on the top were piles of cotton stuffs, received in trade from the far off coasts, and representIng to those natives a contsIderable amount of wealth. In the vague, half-determined notIons which the people here have conceived as to it future existence, everything In the spirit world is supposed to be a pale copy of thinugs existing on'the earth, so that for thuis reason they put cloth, vessels of pottery, aud, in case of a chief, dleait slaves into the graves, in order that the dceoased, on nrrivinig in the Land of Shiados mnay not appear unprovided with the necits sary means of makIng a fresh start in a ne0w lIfe, T'ho grave in whIch this man was buried had been (lug In a hut, and the hecad of the corpse was not more than two feot below the surface. We could not asacertamn whether the hut, or rather housu --for it was a substantial building of' poies and~ thiatch-wou'.d be abandoned or not. I rancy not, as it is only in the case of a chief that this is done; andh the man that was (dead, although rich and influiential, was, after all, only the favorite slave of lie chief. Lack ub~servatry. Dunrhng the past year the construchion of the Lick Observatory on Alount fiiulton, danta Clara county, Cal., has adivancedl rapidl~ly, and it is now possible to gaIn an idea of the magnitude of the undertaking. Of the $700,000 bequothe'd for the pospose, from $350,000 to $400,000 will be0 expended upon btilldings and appatratus andi the rest will be invested for the sup port of the observatory. Captain F'razier, who Is in charge of the work, has intro (uced several Important devices In his plans, the most important of whIch coni cerns the revolving of the dome, for which the drawings have been made and approved by eniient architects. Tne observer sit ting In hIs chair is to direct, the movements of the (domo (the chair revolving with It) by moans of a lever connected with the pneumatic apparatus whIch furnishes the power. The primary use of knowledge Ia for such guidance of conduct in all ofreum stances as shall make living coixaplete. AUl othern uses of knowledge are secon dary. . There are persons who have more intelligence than taste and others who have more tste than infelligence. There Is more vanity and caprice m taste than in Inta111genae'