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TRI-WEKy EDITION* WINNSBORO, S. C..* 4DMBER 25,1883. SALSE 88 CE-* * ... 80 GOES THE WOULD. When I wear the cap and bells, Many friends have I; Unto careless, merry hearts, Merry hearts reply, Just as this earth of ours Dimples in a hundred flowers, When above, in summer's hours, Laughs a summer sky. When Grief bides with me, alas! Not a friend have [; Sad hearts meet on every side With a cold "Good.hy," Just as this earth of ours Parts with all the drooping flower., When above in autumn hours, Glooms a sombre sky. A MAdICIAN'S WAND. "Whati" cried Mrs. Morwatt, in shrill accents of dismay. "Marry Bess Harding. Why Joshua, you ain't never In earnest, be you?" Joshua Morwatt's broad, good-humor ed face brightened into a smile. "Well, I rather think I am," said be. "At any rate I am engaged to her, and we have set the day for the 80th of May. "Without asking me?" "You are not 6ne of the contracting parties," laughingly retorted Joshua: "But seriously, mother dear, it was only definitely settled last night, and I was coming to tell you when you met me half way, with the milk-pail in your hand." Mrs. Morwatt screwed up her lips like a button; her little eyes sparkled like electric fire. "She shall never come into this housel" said she venomously. "Mother, don't," pleaded Joshua, with a pained look in his honest face. "Remember when you and father were young." "&But your father had a little common sense," sharply retorted Mrs. Morwatt, "and I was a hard working farmer's daughter-not one of your dancing, frolicking gypsies who spend their whole time in candy pulls and apron parties, and all that sort of nonsense." "And you will find, mother," urged the young man, "that Bess will be just as good a wife as you were." "Pshaw1" was Mrs. Morwatt's curt rejoinder. "When you know perfectly well that it was the dearest wish of my heart to see you married to your cousin, Nancy Simpson." Joshua Simpson shook his head. "Nancy never would suit me," he said. "She is one of these cold, serpent like women that go gliding about like the ghost in the play. And I'm not vain enough to suppose that I corrbspond wit her ideas any more than she does with mine." "Well," said Mrs. Morwatt, severely, "you've made you bed and you must lie oil it, Joshua. That's all I've got to say on the subject." "But you will come and see her, mother?" "No, I won't!" "You will welcome her to adaughter' place in your heart? For my sake, motherI" vehemently ;*aded Joshua. "For nobody's sake," said Mrs. Mor watt. "I don't lixe Bess Ilarding, and I never liked her! And If you marry her, you deliberately separate yourself from all your home associations!" Joshuai Morwatt turned away, deeply pained and stung to the very heart. "It must be as you say, mother," said he "B~ut if there is an estrangement. it shall be neither Bess' fault'nior mine." Mrs Morwatt kept her word. She niever looked upon Bess Harding, although the girl, deeply wounded at the Idea of thus being shut out from the heart of Joshua's mother, came more than once to beg admittance to the house. She sent. no message of affection, no bridal gift-sihe wvouldl not eveni lead the grace of her presence to the simple weddling. "They shall see what it mneans to offend mnot" said she, with a Qluet vindictivenets. But preitty Boss, a girl of twenty, with soft, gazelle-like brown eyo.', curly hair, and a genuine "sun -rise pink"' complexion, was innocently happy ini the little farm hiouse which Joshua hired, where she played housekeeping, with her china which had once been her mother's, gathered roses for vases, and cooked all manner of dlelIcious dishes for h'er hiusband 's delecation. Bunt hard times camne, skeleton like and~ ghostly, as they camne to all. The succedhinug summer was unusually dry. Crops were parched and shriveled In the groiunid. TIhe cows ceasedl to give rich streamns milk; the bees could find no wild flowers to suck honey from. And, to crown alil, Joshua fell from a beam in the second story of the barn and broke his leg. "Send for my mother," said he, with white lips which betokened his suppress ed agony. "You are r.ot strong enough, Bess, to endure this yourself." Mr.Morwatt, however, refused to "My on mrrie to uithimrelf," hesaid "now let his tIne lady wife nurse him tip." fYet all the while her heart yearned tur one look at her son's face, one sound of his voice. If it had not been for BesS-if only it had not been for hess--how gladly would she have hastened to hisa side! And now ensued real trouble. The little money which the~ young couple had saved was soon scattered. Every tkhxrr went. at loose en. a., -n-s began to count the very pennies At the bottom of her purse. "But, Joshua," she said, "I thought Mrs. Morwatt was rich." "My mother is well' off," Joshua answered sadly, "but the property is aN in her own name, and she has never offered me any of it. Can't you see, Bess, darling, that I would rather die than ask for it?" Bess looked at him with troubled eyes. "What shall I do?" she asked herself. "Can I sit here and see him suffer for the very necessities of life?" Just at that time came a letter to her -a letter from a city friend who had spent a summer in Blooming Vale. "Darling Bess." wrote Mrs. Germyn, "Don't be amazed at what I am going to ask you. But I am to have a Christ mas party for my little girls-and I do so long for some of those cream candies, and sugared nuts, delicious chocalate caramels that you used to make when we boarded with your aunt at Blooming Vale. I enclose a ten dollar bil. Please send the 'goodies' by express, just as soon as you can possibly make them, and oblige everlastingly. Your friend. "61A UnA." The joyful tears came into Bess Mor watt's tyes as she sat looking at the crisp bil neatly folded into the letter. it was not only a ten dollars greenback -it represented health and ease for Joshua -it seemed to open to her the gates of escape from all the petty tortures of this poverty-stricken lire." "Why have I never thought of it before?" she questioned herself. She made baste to prepare the caramels, the dainty cream bars, -the walnuts enclosed in a crystal garment of translucent sweetness, and with them she enclosed the lettter, begging Mrs. Dare to open an agency for her with one of the prominent confectioners of New York. And then she ordereded a barrel of sugar, all manner of dainties and flavors, and went up to the garret and cracked all the butter nuts and hickory nuts which were leftVfrom the' last autumn's store. "To be sure, it is only an experiment," she thought. . "But I hope-I behevi it may succeed. The doctor says that Joshua will not be strong enough to go out doors until spring. Our expenses are continually draining its, and there in nothing coming in. Oh, it must suc ceedl" "It did succeed. Mrs. Morwatt's delicate home confections, in yretty hand painted boxes tied witi, colored ibbons, became the fashi"- Every body asked for thiem-evdybody bought them. Bess was obli;d to hire assistants and transfer ier working quarters to the old Ubtased wing of the house. Money ;ame in with a promptness and stoay flow which seemed to the young wvife almost a Golconda. There was no lack of good refreshing fruit, and strengthening food for the invalid. The farm-house was new, needful machinery was ordered for farm purposes, new furniture came in, and Bess even Indulged in the--to her un heard of--luxury of a black silk dress. "Bess, you're a good fairy," said Joshua exultantly, "a regular ehan tress!" But one (day B ss carre in with a sober face. "What's the matter?" asked Joshua. "Has our new banK failed? Ia the maple candy scorched? Or has the kitten tumbled into tire kettle of boil ing chocolate?" "Oh, Joshua, dlon't jest," said Bess. "It's your mother! She has invested everything in the new rsilroad that was to be cut thrrorugh Walton's Pass--anid its a failure A gigantic swindler The stockholders are men of straw, the p~resident has gone to Japan, arid all w~ho invested ini the concern are ruinied totally!" Joshua grew pale. "What are we to do?" said lie. "There is but one thing to do," Bess answered; "we must go to her. We must bring her here. Our homne must henceforth be her home." "Bess," cried Joshua, in a husky voice, "you are anr angel." "Shre Is your mother, Joshiua," said Bess, gently, "and being yours she is mine." Mrs. Morwatt half stunned by thre suddenness of tire blow which had robbed her of her all, scarcely knew, where she was when shre found hersel f sitting in a big arm-chair by the fire in tihe farmhouse parlor, with her hand in Joshua's, while Boss tenderly removed. her bonnet and shawl. "But.[ have nio right to be here," she said, piteously. "I refuLsed to recognize your wife-i have withheld from you your birthright, and squandered it away. Why donr't you take me where I belong-to the poorhouse?" "Mother, don't talk so," pleaded Joshua. "Here's where you belong uow arid hnenrceforwvardil Here, by our heartlistone." "You are my mother now," sof~y whispered Bess, and the touch of her oft lips on the old woman's withered oheek loosened tire floodgate of her tears -the ,blessed tears that wash awaj all bitterness and pain. "And you," sbe sobbed, "are my daughter!" And therefore the three were bliss. Llly happy togethe, e..n thugh the new railway shares were so much wqato paper. Joshua managed the farm, Bess kept up the confectionery branch of of the business, and Mrs. Morwatt did the housework. But she someties looks at Bess and says, with tears in her eyes: "What would have become of s, darling, if it wasn't for you. Twenty Cgars a Day. " said the old physiian,' was In an iane asylum for many years.", "As a patient?" "Welt, hardty, though I confess con stant association with insane people nearly set me crazy. I really believe' I should have lost my balance if I had remained there. I should eithlir have become insane or turned out a poet." "I have a patient now who was just on the verge of 'tobacco insanity,' as it is sometimes called, a few weeks ago. lie came to me about the middle of Oc tuber, and said he feared lie was becom Ing insane; that he had some of the most horrible and frightful thoughtb and impressions, and felt sure he wopld sometime do something terrible -if 'he were not cured of them. lie was a pale, nervous man with large round eyes, and altogether a very intellectual looking face. He looked like a close student. I asked him if he had not been studying too hard, and he said he had once thought so and had quit all study for several weeks, but fonnd him self growing worse each day. He 4aid lie could not get rid of an awful feeling that something terrible was going to happen; it followed him wherever he went. no matter what he did. 'Why I said lie, 'My room is on the fourth floor, and I dare not ait by the window nor look out at it, for fear that I will yield to the awful impulse to jump out. And the horrible things thatome to my mind-oh, they will surely drive me crazy and I shall do some awful thing ove of these daysi' "Then he told me how he saw things double, and sometimes saw himself coining toward himself with a big knife. 'Why,' said he, I was walking home the other night, and, although I could see no one, I - felt a man coming toward me. I thought him away off, several miles, but that he wus coming toward me rapidly. - Ai this time I knew nobody was comng, yet I cou'd feel him, and was ov sure in my imagination that I soou should see him, as L wias in my rpsvn that I should uot. The feeo-Ag -grew in spite of me. I trio o fght it off with my rcason. but the imagination was . the stronger, and with the nevek-ceas ir. impression that something ter rbie was about to happen, I stopped under a street lamp, and sure enough right there before me stood an exact counterpart of myself. I knew I couldn't run away from it. Indeed, I know there was nothing there to run away from, yet I could see it, and feel its presence. Finally I shut my eyes a moment, and when I opened them again the apparition was gone, and I waLked on home.' "Oh, he told me a long rigmarole of this sort; said he often waked in the night and saw himself lying dead in bed beside himself; that lie had, not less than a hundred times, been almost tempted to kill his little sister just for the sake of seeing how she would look, that lie had wondered how it would feel to be stabbed through tio heart and had, one night, gotten out of bed and threw his pocket-knife out of the wvindow for fear he could not resist the temptationi to use it." "What did you do for him, doctor?" "Well, to tell the truth, 1 never thought of tobacco until lie Look out a cigar and lit it. He seemed very ner vous before that, but the cigar seemed to calm him, and he was qiuite jolly for a time. Then I thought of tobacco in sanity, andl made up my mind that lie was about to have delerium tremens. Carefully I questioned him and found that lie smoked from a dozen to twenty cigars a day, and, as he put it, "They're about the only thing that do me any good' "'ihe cure was yery simple. I shut. limi up and took tobacco izway from himn gradually until lhe got through a day with three cigars and felt so much better that he was convinced his whole trouble wvas all due to smoking, and, of his own accord, hie resolved to quit It entirely. Of course I gave him some nerve tonic and built lip his.genierai health, which. helped him in his good resolution." F&age stamp. Collectors of postage stamps have long had to guard carefully against the danger of paying large prices fbir'skill ful copies of rare issues, and now, it appears, bibliophiles must confront a similar deeipt, a firom in Dusseldorf having taken out a patent for ,its pro cess of imitating all books. They print with old-fashioned typo upon hand made paper, which has been saturated with an anilhne solution, and then sprinkle the pages with various dyes co.~ gvtie n agy wn e h~d a have beeni bound up into a volume, the the edges of the leaves are steepedl in spirit, and fired; and It is dafd tihat after a repriint has undergone thistreat-. ment, it is all bgmt irapossible for any one, unless he makes use of 'chemical tests, to distinguish the forgery from the original. In order to obtain a patent, the Dusseldorf firm have proba ly conymnced the authorities that their wn immediate intentions are honest, but some of their successors are sure to be sfoundrels. --An actual weighing of the letters r elevea t e a so leieow Yor cent. of them weigh. less-thani hf an ounce each. The weithing was cbne at the request of the 1ostmaster G neral who, it is believed, may recommend Congress to increabe thle weigh; Imlow. ance for single rate letters tron~ half an une to an anc-n. ' V Oit "4i Ebo y. Tf e g dae .in the Boston Exhibition e6ntaining,- first, samples of all kinds of. the color ropes and yarns. "Coir," As all the world knows, is the rough, strong, fibrous substance obtained from the outer husk of We cocoanut. Tizey people busy themselves working I" into ropes and stron mattin d' alon witig he fadh V a pl o EE.1 , ustrid from the cocoanut. " Topping the coils bt rope are two bright little bottles, 4hich catch the light so that they look is if they were fille4 with "the suni-fili raptre -of the tolk,)? bit hey r . i h clear yellow oil. TiJ . 0 galese are great adepts in the arpof expressing oil -obtaining them from substances the most promising. Thely open hillsides are covered with the luxuriau growth of'the lemon grasi,.;u4 froi this they express an oil of grat delicacy. A large use to which tey' Put t1e;6 oils is that of anointing thimselves, in order to ward off and oute he bites of the insect tribes indigeno s to the climate; but the oil of the co1 Ut finds a more dignified destiny, belt a valuable ar ticle of export. , . Indeed, the cocoan it palm is to the natives there all in t It furnishes1 them with food, dish" , clothing, fans, shelter, aid an income generally. The wealth of an -individual is judged by his property in these trees.- COylon is the favorite home of the cocoanut palm,- and.it' is epgnated: t 'ithere are twenty millions of them on the island. But no one Chas eve'ribeen able to estimate tie number of monkeys that are aftdr the nuts.' There Is also shown a large mass of. b pe fou# in n o tyanl is o Ine nlar anit s; and- for a remainder of the jungles, they have sent a little elephant a foot or so in length, carved out of the plumbago- I very nicely carved, only the sculptor forgot to add tusks so that it looks like one'of the :re-historlc animals. Then there are sacks of nitive Ceylon coffee, cinnamon bark and-nutmegs. Nature is very benevolent in Ceylon. She makes wooden nutmegs for them. The spicy nutmeg of coitmerce grows on little shrubs, and Is oultivated. ;Btdt in the. forealts, re Large trees which bear nutmeg;#,hidh, exteinally, are the perfect article;-there is a lit tle network of mace surrounding them, and everything complete; - only when you come to test the nut, there's therub-It is just a wooden nutmeg and nothing else-no space at al4 It is a cheat on the part of nature. The solid log of ebony that is the crowning glory of the exhibit gives solid satis faction. "the ebony, That doop-Inearthat], and hating light, A ieaesi tree, and barren of al fruit, With darkness feeds Its boughs of riven grain." An expressive description, but not quite exact, for the ebony does bear leaves despite its hopeless look. Does every one know how the ebony tree grows? It wouldn't be,..eulivenma~ to go picknicking in a grove of them, but 'twould be fine to see one cut down. The bark is of sooty blackness, like a tree that has been charred. The in ner wood is of perfect whiteness till the centre is reached, when it turna out to be perfectly black-hearted--and there is the ebony of cofnmerce. Notwith standing that it is only the cenitre of the tree that is used, they grow to such an immense size, some of tihem being tpn or :filtpene fe~et ,in circumference, that'it is eAsy t6 produce reduced logs of one posthree fget jp 5djameteg. This 6xi' at thb' fdir is about foot in diam eter. Direront Kad. or Eyes. No branch of science has been more thoroughly .mastered than optics. 'T'he principle of vision must be essentially the same in all eyes, but they differ remarkably acdordmg, to the habits of the animal. Birds ot lofty flight, as the cohdor, eagle, vultures, and carrion seeking prowlers of thle feathered race, have telescopic visions, and thus they are eniabled to look down and discover their lunsuspecting victims. As they approach noiselessly from above, the axis of vision chianges-shorteninug, so that they can see ditinctly within one foot of the ground as when at an eleva tion of one mile in the air. This fact explains the balancing of a fishhawk on its pimions a mile above a still pond, watching for fish. When one is iselected, down the.aavage hunter pilnges,. the; local.axisgarying always tob thoesqda -e view of his intended prey. As they - ascend, the axis is elongated by a curious muscular arrangement so as to see far olli again. Snails have their lkeen eyes st the extremity of flexible horns, which they can protrude or draw in at pleasure. By winding the instrument around the edge of a leaf or stalk they can see how mna ters stand on the opposite elde. .Thei hammer-headed shark has' wickedlooking eyes nearly twoi apart. By an ellort they can bend thin' edges or the head, on which organs are located, so as to examine two aides of an object the size of a f sized codfish. .Flies have immovable eyes. T stand out from the .head like half apple, exceedingly prominent. Ins of smooth hemispheres, they have immense number of facots, resembn old-fashioned glass watch seals, one directing the light directly to I. optic retina.- That explains why cannot' be approached in any dic Gentieness in FamShes. Gentleness and kindness in certain elations are almost synonymous terms.,3 !L person who Is kind is apt to be gentle, I Lnd one who is gentle is quite sure to n )e kind. Kindness, however, is a trait; 0 rentleness a habit. The absence of rentleness in families may not prove inkindness, but Its presence propiQtes 0 cindness. Gentleness involves self-con F rol and consi4eration for others, It Is a are thiit pelwdhs living together'lI the I flose relations of a family do not fInd * a 31 it# 9f disegreement. Incongru t-c0teraer, ill-lpalth, Weariness, the e I n 1p ribtjoo p dutfo reivaid, C )r a thousand circumstances,' end'to t )rodudeoattrition, and thus harsh words. Dhildren in soxaohonae have cultivated a ~he iuilltof luar ling t6 an extent hiat leltdi to the nstaht interchange )f unpleasant words. Ill temper is al- y vays present. Such homes are the e cenbof' contention and strife. Yet naturally the children are no noro disposed to contention than other. Yho rurely indulge in. It began in i :rifles: and, unnoticed, igrew, until at a ast it was hard to control. This is ,he ..history of . many fatniiies. It is Lgainst the beginnig, o4 such things ;hat parental watch and care'Is needed. j a.nd the manifestation of gentleness i >etweep iUsbud and wife Is the best a )ossible means of promoting it among ,bildren. Example is very potent. if )arents disregard the little courtesles aid speak indifferently or even barah. , yj the children very speedily learn the e esson, and if they are gentle; consider- v Lte and polite, the children observe and c ollow. This is the rule. Of course, u here are exceptions, Rude, boister )us boys, or children with strong pro onsities for evil, require stronger treat- t nent than mere example. But even B iere gentleness, mixed with firmness, O s best. Timqthy Witcomb once wrote: 'Ther'e W's either hidman nature in a >ig or pig in human nature; you can ead, bnt cannot drive him." Govern nent by sheer force rarely succeeds ti veil in families. The cases where it a s needed are very rare. But the pow- f ir of gentleness has rarely been mea ured. It molds character and smooths a tway rough tendencies. It is the po- a ish that beautifles even rough natures. 8 It does not, rightly cultivated, pro luce effeminacy. A strong nature may r le .back of it, but the self-control, I ivhich is essentiul to getiloness, is Un U >f the noblest elements of manhood and 8 vomanhood. The noble qualities e dhould always be cultivated In cliil- c Iren and the ignoble repressed. But t viat w e urge in gentleness seeks this o :esult. The cultivation of the strong a ,vith the suppression of the weak. It n s from such homes that our best citi ens come-men of strong natures un- t ler perfect control. Hot. Water. 0 Bathing as a remedial agent is no c new thing. Hippocrates, who lived t 300 years before Christ, understood the value of the bath both in health and sichkness; Caesar Augustus had his Lydropathtc physician, and Galen, whot lourished~in the second century 'after j Dh rist, was well acquainted with the worth of water as an external means of removing disease and promoting liealth. But internal bathing is some. thing new; and for the benefit of some s of ouri readers who ask about the "hot a water cure," we condense an article e which recently appeared in the Lances, a, and which is from the pen of a physic' t an of this city.] In 1858 Dr. Salisbury cenludedl e a series of experiments on feeding main la and anima's to ascertain the relations of rood as a cause and cure of disease, Hie found that the fermentations of Iood, and tne products of thesa far mentations, were the chief primfiry -h factors in producing the diseases which i. ar' e; rosa ,uilheithy , alimepation. C &fdoh' the disads he -lheludes~ con- a mumption, Bright's disease, diabetes, s With the idea of removmng these dis- p eases by i emoving the causes, he em- y ployed at first cold and afterwa'rds hot t water to wash out the various acids and t1 fermentations from the stomach and 11 bowels. Cold wateor cAused distress, a pain and~ colio, lukewarm water caused si iiekner. of the stomach and peristals ai upward. Thie temperatur e was increased. c 110 deg, and. 150 deg, with thehappiest a effects. The hot waler excites normah I rlownward porirtalsis of tlie alimentary t manal, washes out the liver and kidtieys, t and the bile Is eliminated through the a bowels, and not through the blood via the kidneys. The daily use of the urinemotor dhe. r termins the quantity of hot water need- t id. The specific gravity of healthy t urine varies from 1.015 to 1.025. The d falitog below this number would indi- r; 3ate a call for less hot water the d rising above this number a call tj ror more water, Tne quantity of b iot water needed varies usually b from half a pint to a pint and a half at i me* drinklag, and should be taken rnm rl meo to two hours before eAch meal and ri ~Urb .hs dOse of d ~~w'to ours, the b Asr ~~noreased it t l~4~ by the I e 19.t tient b ~ tp J~t~ e water. p ~ t4~$ oulht be i to dis ti 0 n~ob a~dmakeLt eel uan- h onu o thirty ej ~q~lJ~I~j' ~riniting a generally require.1 to wash out the ver .and intestin's thoroughly. 'Not Iore than half a pint of hot watar hould be drank with the meals. To' iake tLe beverage palatable or h3 iodloate it, aromatio spirits of ammonia, lover blossome, gluger, lemon.juice, age, salt of sulphate of magnesia are Diletimos added. Where there is in eDeo thfist or dryness a pinch of holride of o.1eiam or of nitrate of otash may be added to allay tlhe thirat ud le ive a moistened Rim over the *rohed and dry mucous surface. When here is diarrbcoa, cinnamon, ginger nd pepper may be boilqO in the hot rater, and the quantity lessened. Pot onatipaton, a taaspoonfal of, sn4lphate I magnesia, or halt a teaspoonrul of araxacum niay be uspd in hot water, Hot water thus taken. causes the swin o become healthy to the touch and in pp3ar-a%%e; Aijiortsdhord tibng lakes th patient foil brighler and the hysicial machine wirk better. Io - rater in hot weat! r is not craved (it is lisal!owed in all easm, sick or well), ud those who have drnt fo3.wator reely ale cured of the prosensiy. In briety has a deadly loe in this use of ot water, All thirst and dry mu.:ous iembrane disappear in a few days, an I molbt condition of the muoens meni ;r-ne and skin takes place. The re xing influence of hat iiside the ali ientary canal relieves spasm and colto I the bone s, just as heat outside tha bdomen relieves. Hot water de'utes he 1opy secretions of the ih.le body, nd r, iders them less adhesive and enacious. it dissolves the abn',vmal rystalmne substanca that may bs in be blood urine. it washes out the tomach and leaves it fresh and clean Dr eating. It promotes eliminatiou vwrywhere. As we are '75 per cent. rater, to krop front stagnation we need ontinual reuewal. Tie universal use I hot beveragee at meal-time is based a a physiolugical nouessiti. If ho rat(r in due quantity is taken between ieais, there-will be but little nead of iking water at minals. 4fter tweny ve yeard praofcee the founder of tini lethod oi using hot water Bays: "It I 'ore confined to one means of meolioa iOn I would take hot water." Mannr of mEatinag. Let us suppose a well-cooked meal ou ie table (which will hardly admit of ny fried meat, by the way), and the tinily seated, it may be a question how ) dispose of it. The Americl fash ml is generally to get through it as soon a possible, to save time. This is nother economical error. FooI eaten lowly and well masticated is less like r to produce temnporary inAigestion, or ermanent dyspepsia than uwhen eaten apidly, or bolted, as the sayhig is. foreover, a smaller quantity of food toI Olowly, notually ",ni1iishes the ystem more than a larger quantity aten with undue haste and nsuffi iently masticated. There Is a rational mien between lol Bring over meals aid eating too hastily r boiting, which should always be ob rved. Very often a man hurries too iuch to get back to his business, or is children are hurried to get to school. .'iis is all wrong. Meals should be aken regularly and deliberately, ieitlier feasting in thei sense of over eeding, nor fasting, is commendable nder ordinary circumstances. Indeed ither is apt to entail the other as a ommon sequence. Children should ever have long intervals between the imes of taking meals or food. Their Igestion Is more rapid than that of dults. The process of digestion Is, or ought a be, accomnplued usually ini from our to six hiours;and this accompilished, fature calls, for a new supplly, and hmer emands should be duly respected. No uan can do his work effectively either eiital or physical, withour. a sutlicienut upply of food, abundant in quantity nd good in quality; but when lie has iuough lie ought to stop. Enough Is a good as a least, it is said, and more hamn enough is sure to bring penalties. temiote disease surely, and sometimes udden death Is the result of overload og the stomach. 11enry Coumns' Cute setter. a ftillbloodett i-sh istte .' resent, com a gentlemen of New Yoric city. Ine day he and a neighbor friend, who Iso owns a fine turkey and bird dog, tarted out turkey hunting. On the remises of Mr. Franklin Stearns, near that is known as the R~oak house, on lie Hlazie river, they liashed a lot of arkeys, and at the l1rst fire killed . a no turkey. Then on the opposite ide of the river, in a large tree, they aw a turkey siting. Mr. (Jaons, with moch precaution, gained the river bank pposite the turkey, and firing at It cross the river, saw the turkey fall. [e and his iriend oalled on their dog~s o go for the turkey. After swimmmng he river they captured16t, a large yong obbler. The dtogs, however, disagreed ndgmsgle ggilSi this, the unters called bot$ Eog across the iver to them, and then Mr. 0. said > his dog: ".Di1k, go back and bring ihe turkey to me," keeping the other og back. Dick at once reorossed the ver, but the turkey not being entirely cad had succeded in getting some lairty or forty yards from the river ank. Hie, huowever, dragged at to the ank, and viewing the prom ees, threw to the water's edge,, and tapa ln the ver, takmn/ the same aolos~ The ver here'is iglly fif ty yggdes we, be. g the upper end of Mr. 8SteaiuU mill am. Tue dog first dragged the turkey y the neck, but making a change put on his back and swam with it. When lick reached the shore he was com. lptely exh tqsted, having toroe the Io fiekt'ohr Dimes, -and the- ntire, Itance he wimbeing in all two hun daa t~ie l@ cross ~td1tarkey .weighing fifteeu ounds or more., --Tourists complain that the Swis Mlteoepera now .charge as much as ght and sten cents pe glass for milk, THE VERDICT --) --- THE PEOPLE BUY THE .BEST! MR. J. 0. DOAO-Dear dily: I bought t 41e irst Davis Machine sold by yoU over 4ve bears ago for my wife, who has given it a long and fair trial.' I ama well pleased Witti At. It oer gives ay rouble, And i as good as when rat bought. Winusboro, H. C., APrI I83. Mr. B1OAG: Ioa WISh to iow what I have to say In regard to the Davis Machine bought of you three ears ago. I feel a can't say too much In its lavor. I anaJe about $80,00 Within Ave iontih, at tqipes running it uo fast that the needle woutd get per fectly not from fraction. I feel confident I could not have done the sanie work With as munc ease and 8o well with ay otier macline. No time lost in adjustiug attachmtents. The hightest running inach ne i have over treadled. BrutherJames and N% liauts' fauillius are as much pleased with their DAvis Machines nought or you. I want no bettor tmachauie. As I said before, I dou't think too nauch can be said for the Davis Macnlue. ltespectfully, 1KLLNt4 bnvRgxos, Fairalid County, April. 1es, Mo. BoAo: My inonine give me perfect ats faction. I dnd no fault with it. ' The attachments ai e so simple. A wish for no better than the Davis Vertieal Feed. lespectfailly. MRe. It. 5MI.4.. Fairield county, April, 1883. M P. HOAO: L congnt a Ilavis Vertical Foel W ing Machino froan you four years ago. I am 1igutei with it. It never has give me any o ucle, and has never been the least, ot of order. t i as good as wuen I drat bought it. I can cheerfully recommend It. lespectfully, Aimsi~. M. J. KLKXLAND. MontIcello. ADril 80, 1883. This Is to certity that I nave been using a Dayis Vertical Feed Sewing Maclaine for over twJyears, purchased of Mr. J. U. 116ig. I havan't found I't pamessed of any fault-all the attachinents are so simnple. It never refuses to worK, aud im certainly the lightest, running In the market. I conslder it a oIrst class macuine. Very respectfully Oaklaul. FaIrflold county. 8. (. Ma IoAe a ia Wiit pieasit in every partiuti wit h the ioavis Michine nought of you. I tunk a liirt-otasi inaculine in every respect. You kuw you sold several muactaines of the same make tU dilierent imeinbers of our families, all of whom, an far as I know, are well pieased Witu them. Itespetfully, Mats. Pd. Al. Mosusty. Fairfleld county, April, Am. This ato cortiry we nave nas in constant use t.ev . ach,.e byught of you about three years price of it several titnes over, we eet *Ai ay oetter machine. It is always ready to do any ki,1 of work we nave to do. No puokerlagor sKippitg stitclies. We can onay say we are well ptease I ud wish no better machine. Apria 2, 1898. LAT1MHtINE WYLt8 AND Siaric. I have no fault to Una with my inach he, anti don't want any better. I have m-le te prioe of it severa timnes by taking la sowing. It is always ready to do its work. I think it a lirst-clias a chlue. I feet I can t say too muci for tiLe DJAvia Vertical Feed Machine. Mas. TuoXAS SITH. Fairficild county, April, 1883. MR. J. 0. BoAo-Iear Sir: it gives me in ita pleaure to testify to tne inerits of the Davis Ver Mal Feed Hewing Machit4e. The machlne I got of yon about five years ago. has bueu almost in con. ssit use ever samce tihat timne. I cannot see that it is worn any, and has not cost mco one ceut for repairs sine we nave had at. Amn well pleased anl diont wish for any better. Yours truly, - JoST. Cats.WFoRtu - Grauaito Qstarry, near Wlunnsboro 8. C. We hasve used the Davis Vertloal Fee-i Sewing Machinae for thie last live years. We wouald n ~a have any othier make at any price. The tuao:aiie has given us unibounderc satisfaction. Mt.Very respectfully, Mu.W. K. Tluiusit AN > DAUOZITSats Pairileidi county. 8. C.. Jan. 21 18.8 ilavug hought, a Davis VertIcal Feed Sewing Machtine from Mr. J. 0. lioag somne tihree years ago, and It, naviug given mne perfect satisfaction la every respect, as a taimily mnauttine, botti for hee 'y i lii tat soewng, and never needed the ieast re pair inutiny way, 1 c..a cieerfuiiy recouainend It to any one as a a1rst-class mnachine in every partieu jar, tand thank lI second t~o none. It is one of the stinpiest Iiachi'te inade; Iny hlliuren use it Wilma ali case. The attacaments are mere eaeiiy ad justed andi It doues a greater range of work hy mteans of its Verticai a'eed than any otlier mia chine I have ever seen or used. Mats. TUOtAS OWiNoiS. Winnasb ra FaIrfloida county. 8. C. We have had one or the Davis Maclnes about four years and have always found It readly to do all kindis of wora we nave na I occasion to tio. Can4t see that the machine is worn say, and works as well asi when new. . a .J Ctwow Jackson's Cres. Fairfild countyv, S.';. My' Wife is highly pleased with the Davis Ma. chtine bought or you. lite would not Lake dioutbie avnat sne gut,, for*'it.- The in.acnline has -not bewai out, 9t: order since she had It,, anad she can do uny kind of worK on It. Very Itespedifully, JAS. I. i'iss. Monitlcollo. F~alrlield county, 11. C. Tue Davis liewing Machine Is ulniply, s fras tare Mae. J. A. (Ioouwrs. itidgeway, N. C., Jan. 10, 1888. J, O flOAt, Esq., Agent--Dear Sir. My wife hias 'teen using a Diavis dowing Machine constant. ly for the past, four years, and it hias never needed tiny repairs an ia worcs just, as well as when fires bonugitt. She saya it will do a greater range of paractical work Pnd do it easier an better than any machine she nas ever used. We cheerfully reacommend it as a No0. 1 family mnachine, Yont tru.y, .I Winansbor'o, 8. 0., Jan. 3, 1883. Ala. 1o0w 1 have always found Iny Davis Mla. elhine ready do all kinds of to W~rkt I haye had oo. osaion to doc. I cannot see that the uacne ia wvorn a particle ald it works aswe a~ en new. MR , M0Ao .wife has lieen constantly usIng the havIa a nebuh of) on 'about uve year. ago. I have flaver regrettedl b t, s.1nt to 4. Fairald,80. Mr-h