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. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C . WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1899. THE PLANTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, QA. ?Mrl Pays Infewst on Deposits, Accounts Solicited, L. 0. HAYNH, President. W. O. WABDLATT, Cashier. VOL. LXIV". NO. 5i T? TT* a r WU D WARREX WALKEK. A LAUGHTERJvND TE?RS\ jTeep a plnod for lanphtor- "* Joy will thrill the years;-. ". Bat here, dear-not hereafter Keep o>placa for tears. : ..; ?,-> For laughter len ves us lonely, r And .TV he a. tho joy ls past, ./Tears', that aro ch nu tent MR only, ' ' v -iWosh white the soul at last. . -F. L. Stanton. ' A PANTHER'S LOST BREAKFAST-, j rsT'OIT may go over and spend y the'day wit?rrAtti?t Ly'd . T . dy," said Mrs. Hayfield Q to her daughter Mary, t ' jnTH,']bji":baek''T)y. sundown, .sure, rand, if you'ro hera "by five o'clock V?tt'tt- vbe- likely to find' me. Or yon can afcay. all night with Aunt Lyddy, if yon want to. It's too bad Cousin Mildred should have been taken .down siok while your Tether, and Tom are off with the cattle. But IUI have to go to her for a day, anyway." "Well,, gopd-by, mother,", saidfour .teen-year-old Mary.. "I guess.I can toko care of myself. I don't believe I ?hall go-to Aunt. Lyddy's, either, that is, unless Iget scared some way."J "It'srjkirfa of > lpnely;'Iigu?ss you'd]} . better," said Mrs. Mayfield, as she .started to walk to the cabin of her married cousin, three miles away through the woods. .. In. that remote, corner of ^Michigan . there were thon-' 'only 'five families -within, ten miles' of the Matelda', and tho neighbors sel dc ni saw each : other except on Sundays, when they . all met afc the -little rough-board . church in the valley. Each household led'an isolated'and self-sufficient life; but when any wpman or girl was left, ontiroiy alono?sjie'ielfc herself to be almost as completely deserted as was -Robinson Crusoe. - Mary busied herself with some household duties for a while after her mother lei c. Then she went out and fed the few clamorous hens,' and gave her,pet hunb a basin of milk.. "I be lieve I will go to Aunt Ly d dy'fl,"* she said to herself, looking up at the de serted house. "It is eo. lonesome! The woods are so still, all around, that it almost seems as if I could hear the wild creatures moving in the brush. What if a bear or a'' panther should hear'myJamb bleating in the bani shed and como after it? 1 wish. the little thing would keep still. Doxie, 'Doxie, what makes you cry so? There, pet, come out here for a little while, and see if you won't feel better." Mary went into the -shed and - brought the lamb out in her. arms. The little creature hushed its cries at - her touch, but it began ; restlessly sniffing the vaporous, odorous, early morning air. Dew still decked the grass; the shadow of the eastward -~-'?^od6^Mr^eT:r^CT?^^?rg"pgsiure [ and the barnyard with'a twilight ef fect. The sunbeams had reached the house, however, and Mary moved in stinctively toward the patch of brighfc . ness, with^lh? tremblingiamb in her. irma. - * - ." -'' \ l'* "Why, Doxie, I never knew .you to act so before!" she cried. "What makes you so frightened, pet? Why, JW-" ^.As the lamb straggled in .her arms, Mary looked apprehensively around; was it for fear of something behind her? One backward glance; then, with a shriek, she fled "toward the house. Orouching and crawling on top of the barn-yard fence was a great, tawny beast, with catlike head, gleaming eyes, and a long tail that lashed ner nously to and fro, as the animal ad vanced. Mary had heard so many stones and descriptions of the panther that, although she had never seen one before,, .shj^ knew, this beast in a mo ment, i '< ?". : Her heajl^ai/itt t^'ki?nt?i m she sprang for:th?pgea kitchen door with the lamb clashed "to her bosom. Be ' wildered with fright, she did not close the door behind her, but sped upstairs and into her own chamber, dropped the lamb on tho bed, slammed the door, and'threw "herself, panting and trembling, against it. _."Inamoment she realized how fool ish she had been to neglect the door beIow;?for she heard the big cat bound into the kitchen and come sniffing up the staircase, slowly and doubtfully. It could climb a tree like a squirrel, - but it may have thought the staircase too suspiciously easy. : "Oh! wHurshalUf do?" sobbed poor Mary, wringing her-hands. "I can't . keep him out qi here! He'll break down this thin door in a minute, and eat -- me up, and Doxie, too!"-. Her eyes fell on the narrow window of the chamber, high up m the gable, looking out over the roof of the kitchen. She snatched a choir, ran to the win dow, climbed up, opened .the sash, and was about to go out on the roof when tne lamb bleated. Mary looked back. ) "JBopi little Doxie, you sha'n't be eaten up!" she cried, bounding back to ?the floor with every nerve tingling. She caught'the lamb, sprang back to the chair,'climbed up and put her little j pet out on the roof, just as .the sound of fierce, rending claws came from tho door. Wita a prayer in her heart that God would keep the panther back just ? ? minute longer, she grasped the case ment c-lside, and began to draw her? . self painfully through the window. The space was very narrow-sonar row that she had to turn sidewise in order, to .squeeze into it at all. Fora) little while it seemed as if she oould not get through, but she let her breath '*~ ??t,~smf??X.a?f small as she could, and 'tgr, ?w^K, rftantio ir effort ' that nearly tore her dress offT /wriggled through and drew down the sash behind her. As . . yet she had not heard the panther en ter the chamber, and she dared not look back to see if he where there. How strange it seemed to be sitting ont there in the broad morning sun shine, with the frightened lamb nest ling in her lap, and the ohimney-swai lows circling around her head, the woods so peaceful, the little pasture sparkling with the dew, all outdoors so serene, so indifferent, and yet that dreadful panther in the quietness of the house seeking , ??r life I Suddenly Mary's heart leaped mad ly- and she clutched Doxie with a grip that made the lamb bleat with pain. r?;0 ? jJnSi saw the panther crouched by ti well-sweep, looking up at' them. He had stolen out to the ,barn-yard. Tho weU-sweepl .. A nd the panther beside it! What if-he should climb it? The great sfei?k bf * timber* from which the backet was haag reached from the earth, where its box of stones weighed ' down th? larger end, to a point over the well, within six feet ol the edge of the kitohcn roof. Sup pose the panther should climb th a sweep? Could lie reach a point from which he could leap to the roof, before his weight should cause the balanced ^timber to tip the other way? Tha crouching cat moved even inore swiftly than Mary expected, With a-, light, lithe spnng he grasped the Bweep just below the point where it fitted into tho orotch of the upright post. Then he began to climb quick ly upward. . ...... The girl trembled and shivered and stared, bewildered, at the - blazing, hungry eyes, and creeping form. The roof ?was her'lastrefuge. Should the famished panther reach that, nothing but help from outside could' save "her life. The beaBt waa ascending more, slow ly. I He seemed now to suspect tho sweep, for he stopped frequently and sniffed tho timber in front of him, be fore resuming his' ?low and careful oreeping. Ho passed the. upright post, and still the heavily-weighted lower end of the sweep remained upon the ground. ' The panther began to orouoh low er, and gripped' the timber more firmly With his claws, fi? was getting ready to spring. . ... But he did not leap when he 'pre parod to do so. It seemed to oocur to him that he could.run lightly along this seeming branch and spring from very near tho end'of it. ?6 rose higher and came on as a oat trots on a fence. Mary, staring, shrieked and shrieked. Then, suddenly, 'the buck et-end of the sweep went down with a rush. Tho weighted end' went up; the surprised panther pitched head first, clawed desperately, trying to keep his hold, and did not wholly lose it and his balance until ho. was di rectly over the welL Then1 into the well he pitched, headlong. * ; Down he went, with a scrambling clatter. Then Mary heard a hollow sounding splash, twenty feet below the ground surface, as the beast Went head - foremost into the water. ' For several minutes there was a great tu mult in the well-au unearthly scream ing, a frantic dashing and churning of water, and scratching at the rock walls. But all was quiet, and the trembling girl began to draw full breaths again, long before an hour had passed. The foronoon was far advanced, however, when Mary ventured to pry up her chamber window and slip back into the house. Taking Doxie with her, she stole down-stairs, and closed and barred the heavy kitchen door. Theu, feeling siok and faint, she lay down on tho lounge, and presently fell asleep, exhausted hythe nervous -ruction, Tlie ?next thing she heard-, was a knock at the kitchen door, and her mother "calling: "Mary! Are you there, ohild? Let mein!" As soon -as sho heard her daughter's Btory, Mrs. Mayfield wont and looked into the well. Down in the gloom, projected slightly above the surface of tho water, wa6 something-she could not tell what. She let down the bucket,dbut'it struck a solid mass, and could not be dipped. "I declare, Mary," she exclaimed, "I believe your panther is actually drowned in the well!" Mary laughed nervously. *'He either drowned," she said, "or went through to China, for he certainly didn't come up again."-L. W. Law rence,'in,Youth's Companion. Ol?-Tlmo Kentucky Fonds. . "The'?entucky feuds of recent days, whjcji juvve been so .extensively adver tised iii the newspapers, are mild af fair^^ompare* to-the-fends of thc antebellum, times,", said Mr. B. J. McCfauum, of Louisville, at the Nor mandie*--., "Though a.-lad at the time. I well remember the long protracted and "bloody feud,'" that raged in Green County between the .Wallaces and Lisles, Hardly a day passed that either ' a ' Wallace or Lisle was not killed, for" there was numerous progeny on each side, and the sons of the orig inal foes kept up the quarrel of their fathers. Both families were of Scotoh blood and fought with the desperation of their Highland progenitors. Whenr ever a Lisle met a Wallace, whether at; a picnic, a .horse, race or at eleo .tions,.. pistols were simultaneously drawn and the shooting began. "As a rule these killings were never followed by any legal punishment, but I recall that on one occasion a Wallace was sent to the penitentiary for sending a bullet from his rifle straight through the skull of a Lisle after Lisle had emptied his pistol at the other. Public sentiment was strongly on the side of the survivor, and so Wallace was par doned out on a petition of leading citi zens, af ter he b? d served but s ix m on t hs. The Civil War came on and put an end to the vendetta, the Wallaces allying themselves with the South and their enemies entering the Union army. In all no less than fifty mon were killed as a result of this internecine strife." -Washington Post. The Country Merchant. The principal reason why country merchants fail to advertise profitably is that in their advertisements they do not talk specifically about the article they want to sell nor do they give prices. They must learn the Wanamaker system. If the reader ie aT?irinterested'in au-article he wants 'to'knowdts good points. If these are favorable lie wants to know the price. If this is satisfactory ha becomes a buyer, and the advertisement has served both seller and buyer. If no misrepresentation has been made the. sale of this article may have created a steady customer, the profit on whose trade mar become large enough to pay for the advertising necessary to secure one hundred more customers like him.-Making a Country News? paper. ?_ German Poital Card Monia. An amusing illustration of th? ' il? lustrated-poBtal-cord mania in Ger* many was afforded the other day at Cassel, where for a Berida of competi tive concerts by choral associations from varions ? German cities, & ;00 were taken in, while the sale of plot* nre'cardB amounted to 8325Q,_ IMPROVISED ? One of the most delightful and sug by the College of Agriculture, Cornt Bohools, is one entitled "The Hirds one trated by a number of suggestions for all the boys and girls who "are always "make something useful." Some of tl shown in the picture. Any ing?nions I; The floor op ace in'each compartment sh 6x6 inches or 6x8 inches may be better, of these numbers, ono can easily raak* for there are some birds, as martins, tr live in families or colonies. The size o: be just large enough to admit the b bad, but it exposes the inhabitants ti Birds which build in houses, aside fr wrens, tree swallows, martins, and somi and chickadee the opening should bo . the others it should be two inches. Tlie Mtii'sjill's Iel]." By R. H. EDMONDS.. Ten years ago the South fought its first skirmish in the endless hattie that ever rages for tho world's com mercial supremacy. Its pig-iron en tered the markets so long dominated by Pennsylvania furnaces,' and, to the dismay of- thoss-who had^ affected to despise itsjrivalry, won a substantial victory... Alabama iron became a fac tor in every iron-consuming centre, and from this position.it could not be dislodged. About the' same time Southern cotton mills were forcing their product into successful competi tion with the output of New England mills. But as Pennsylvania iron and steel people took refuge in the claim I that the South would never advance beyond the iron-making stage, that it could never become a factor in the higher forms of finished goods and in steel-making, BO the New England mills lulled themselves into a sense of security on the claim that though Southern mills might make coarse goods, they could never acquire tho skill and the capital needed for tho finer goods. In the light of what has been accomplished within ten years, it seems very strange that such argu ments as these should have done duty in so many newspapers and in so many gatherings. A Prophecy. Judge Kelley-"Pig-Iron Kelley," as ne was familiarly known-had been wiser than his people. Nearly twenty WAGES PAID TO FACTORY HANDS. ?. 1880 1899 575,900,000. $350,000,000. years ago he proclaimed the coming power of the South in all industrial pursuits, and heralded it not as a dis aster to Pennsylvania and to New England, but as an added strength to the industrial power of the country. "The development of the South,"said he, "means the enrichment of the na tion." In this light the progress of the South should be watched, for while its industrial upbuilding may mean the changing of some forms of industry in other sections, there is versatility enough in our people and in our country to find a new avenue for the employment of brains and energy and capital for overy one that may be dosed by changing business conditions. New England may yield ?he sceptre of cotton-manufacturing to the South, to the vast enrichment of the South, but New England will Cud new openings for its tireless energy and its accumulated capital. CHAIN PRODUCED-BUSHELS. 1880. 1898-99. ? 431,000,000. 736,000,000. The South will become enormously wealthy through the change, but New England will not be made the poorer. The First Sklrmlnlios. Just about the timo when tho South was winning these first skirmishes, and when its people were dazzled by the new opportunities of employment and wealth creation which were open? m* io RAILBOAD MILEAGE, 1B80. 1809. 80,000. W.OOO. i ag before tb dm after the darkness of thirty years of war and reconstruction trials, there cams the world-wide ?IRD HOUSES, - . V gestive of the teachers1 leaflets issued jil University, for nse in the ptiiblio i I," by L. H. Bailey. This is ?lus bird houses, whioh may be copied by wanting to use hammer and nailsjand he many forms which can be use^ are oy oan suggest a dozen other patterns, oald not be less than 5x6 inohes^jand By catting the boards in multiples j a hoaso with several compartments; ee swallows and pigeons, that like to I the doorway is important. It should ird. A larger opening not only looks 3 dangers of cats and other enemies, om doves and pigeons, are bluebirds, Btimes the chickadee. For the wron an inoh and a half augur hole, and for financiar panic following the Baring failure. The South, suddenly brought down from its dizzy speculative height, had to face new conditions. The business world recognized that the supreme toBt of the South's in herent advantages and possibilities | had come. It faced the situation-its iron-masters steadily reduoed the cost I of iron-making, until furnaces* which | had been turning out $8 and ?3 iron COTTON 1880. 233,880. t#* jv J tass CONSUMPTION IN MILLS-BALES. SOUTHEBN 1898-99. 1,999,000. were able to produce $6 iron; its cot ton-mill owners wisely abandoned old machinery, and, equipping their mills with every modern improvement, drove them to their utmost capacity night j and day, in order to doable the output on thoir invested capital and propor tionally reduce the cost of goods; its cotton-planters, who had kept their corn-cribs and smoke-houses in the, West, buying in the aggregate about 8100,000,000 worth a year of Western corn and bacon, commenoed to raise their .own food supplies, and in this way, returning to the old ante-bellum system, reduced the cost of raising cotton. While these changes, all revolutionary in their character, were in progress, the small bankrupt rail road lines were brought into compact systems, new and heavier rails laid, rolling-stock increased and necessary extensions made. Iron and Coal. Thus the South passed through the long period of depression, standing the great test, which oame so unex pectedly, in a way that strengthened the world's confidence. . It not only SPINDLES IN COTTON-KILLS. 1880. 1899. 667,000. 6,000,000. held its own during this period, but its iron-makers entered foreign mar kets, and demonstrated that the South could dictate the price of iron for the world. Alabama iron set the prioe in England and on the Continent, as well as in Japan, and even from Jerusalem came an order for it. This marked a revolution in the world's iron- and PHOSPHATE MINED-TONS. 1880. 1899. 760,000. 2,000,000. steel interests. Henceforth the world was the market for Southern iron. When this point had been reached, the next step was to build steel-works commensurate with what has been ac complished in iron-making; and to-day j two gigantic plants-one to make steel billots, and the other to make finished steel produots-are nearing com pletion at Birmingham. They have cost about 32,500,000. They have CAPITAL INVESTED IN MANOTAOTUBIHG. 1880. 1890. . 6287,000,800. -11,000,000,000. already booked heavy orders for steel billets for Bhipment to Pittsburg. A number of fur nae GB built during-the boom of 1889-90, andwhiohhave been idle ever since, have lately been bought by strong companies, and are now being put into blast, Wita every urnaoe crowded to ita utmost capac* ty, which, will soon be the case, the mtpnt of Southern iron in 1900 prom ana tobe nearly fifty per pent, larger bdd eta* before? The demand ic; io?l ?ide?de the production, though' hat ia now at the fata pi 4:0,000f000 ons a year. There is almost feverish wtivity in enlarging the output ot rid mines, in opening new ones, and JAPITAIi IK COTTON-SEED-Om MANUFAC TURE. 1887? 1899. $8,500,003. * 640,000,000. n building coke-ovens; for a ready Jemand meets ev?ry ton produced, ?vith a profit that makes glad tho stockholders. Tho Phosphate Industry. Turning from iron and coal, with the almost fabulous profits which ;hey are yielding, to other industries, phosphate-mining looms into promi nence. Up to ten years ago South Carolina was the only American source jf phosphate rock, and our fertilizer factories, as well as those of Europe, had to depend npon the few hundred thousand tons which that State an nually produced. Then it was' die? :overed that Florida had vast phos phate beds, and soon that State sur passed South Carolina in this indus try. Two or three years later similar discoveries were made in Tennessee, ?nd the mining activity which has fol lowed reminds one of the tales of de COAL MINED-TONS. 1680. 1899. P.000,000. 40,000,000. velopment in new gold regions. Ten years ago the South's output of phos phate rook was not more than 750,000 tons; this year it will be 2,000,000 tons. "What this means in the diver sification and improvement of agricul tural conditions is too broad a subject for treatment here. The Forests. Possessing one-half of the standing timber of the United States, the South is building up immense lumber and wood-working interests- a*?'1 ?'?r'v?-1? ont the entire lumber r> . . , is as prosperous as i? triots. Cotton ls Still Ki Though the value of th raised in ' that eection es farm the value of the coi to n- is "still-' tho dominan t business life of the Sout" country has suoh a mon . . agricultural staple of sucl influence as the South has Cotton and cotton-seed bring to South ern farmers an average of $300,000, 000 a year. The comparatively new industry of cotton-seed oil making now employs over $40,000,000 of capital, and yields an annual product of upwards of 350,000,000. From Galveston alone the foreign exports of cotton oil and cotton-seed meal are averaging nearly 1000 tons a day. Of thia industry the South has almost as much of a monopoly as it has of cot ton-growing, but in the manufacture COTTON CROP-BALES. 188). 1898-99. 5,750, OOO; 11,174,840. of cotton goods this section, though making marvelous progress, is still only getting well started. There are about 100,000,000 cotton-spindles in the world. The South furnishes the cotton for about three-fourths of these, or 75,000,000 spindles; but has only 5,000,000 spindles. To consume in its own mills its crop of 10,000,000 to 11,000,000 bales would require the investment of over $1,500,000 in new mills, and long before that point could be reached, even at the present rapid growth, the world will annually re guire of this section from 25,00b,000 to 80,000,000 bales. In 1880 th s South started on its cotton-mill de velopment with a basis of 667,000 spindles, representing a capital of 821,000,000. By 1890 it had $61, 000,000 capital in this industry and 1,700,000 spindles. To-day it has 5,000,000 spindles and about $125, 000,000 of capital invested in cotton mills, while mills under construction represent about $25,000,000 more. The most significant sign of the times in this industry is that New England mill-owners, recognizing that the South is hound to win, are transfer ring large capital to Southern mills. A number of the leading mill companies of tho former section have, during thc last few years, built branch mills, costing from $500,000 to $1,000,000 eaoh, in the South; and now one of VALUE OF MANUFACTURED FRODUCTS, "1880. 1899. 8457,400,000. 81,500.000,000. New England's greatest corporations is spending $2,500,000 in building in Alabama what will be ' the largest cotton-mill ever constructed as a sin gle enterprise. The recent advance in the prioe of cotton is bringing pros perity to the farmers, and if it holds for the balance of the season, will mean $75,000,000 more to them than they reoeived for last year's crop. Li diversified interests the same story of progress and prosperity runs, The Newport News Ship Yard, with PIO-IRON PAODU?ED-TOS 8. 1880. 1800. 897,000._ 2,600,000, over $10,000,000 of work under con? traot, including two steamers of about 12,000 tons each for the Pacific trade, the largest rer built in America, ia said to bo employing more hands than even the Oramps; the Bichmond Lo? CAPITAL INVESTED IN COTTON MILLS. ?880. 1899. $21,900,000. $125,000,000. com?tite Works are competing with the Baldtriflff in .exporting locomo tives; the Maryland Steel Company has been furnishing steel rails for < Bussia's Siberian Kaibroad, for Aus- * tTalia and other distant regions; Ala-, bama coke has gone to Japan, and tho , export of both coke and iron is only J limited by the fact that the home de mand now exceeds the supply. The ?oath's Story in Statistics. Statistics are often uninteresting, . but the story of the South'B progress | cannot be told more clearly than in the comparative illustrations scattered through this article, in which regable estimates are given where exact fig ures are not obtainable. Surveying tho whole Southern situ ation, what has been done and what ia . under way, it can be truly atf^hat "all's well."-Harper's Wwwtfc. 1 What One Hears In the Telephone.' "lt is very hard to realize that the voice one hears over the telephone is not tho voice of tho person who is talking," said in electrician, chatting about the oddities of the business, to a reporter of the New (/rley.0B Times Democrat. "It seem? exactly like the real tones, drown out thin and sin?ll and carrier, from along distance by some mechnni-'al means, but it is not. When ona speaks into the in strument, a little diaphragm, like o drum-head, begins to vibrate, and each vibration sends a wave of elec tricity over the wire. These waveB set up a mimic vibration in another diaphragm at the opposite end, which jars the air and produces an imitation of the original voice. That's not a very scientific explanation, but it's accurate. The autograph-telegraph, which makes a fac-simile of hand writing, is a fair parallel. * You write your message with a pen, attached to a special electric apparatus, and a lit tle ink siphon at the other end of the line exactly imitates every dot and curve. The resalt seems like the real thing, but is merely a first-class coun terfeit. It's the same woy exactly vice being in lbi?/, tached to Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olympia. In September of that year Ah Yu was sent to the hospital at Yokohama, suffering from lung trouble. Since then he has been op erated on several times, but os his health did not improve he was dis charged from the service. Shiug Wu and Wong Soon Doon, of Shanghai, oerlify tc the identity of / h Yu, and the examining surgeon says the sailor Chinese is totally disabled for the per formance of any labor. Ah Yu served on the Olympia, Baltimore, Charles ton, Monocacy, Omaha and the Falos. Tho pension granted is for 330 o month, with back pension amounting to $510. Cassava, the New Crop. The Spanish war seems to have given promise of benefit in a direction entirely unexpected in stimulating the study of tropical products. A plant has been "discovered" that promises to become to the Gulf states what wheat is to the North. For years this plant, which resemUes a gigantic beet, has been a staple product of Brazil and other South American countries, and has recently been grown in Jamaica with remarkable re sults. In Eastern tropical countries it is known as "manioc," in Brazil it is oalled "mandioca," in Colombia it is known as "yucca," and in the West Indies the name "cassava" or "oas sada" prevails. The gigantic roots SEVEN CASSAVA-ROOTS. produce ? flour that rivals the best of wheat. They give a juice that makes an excellent table preserve. They yield an abundance of starch of a su perior quality. They also make a re markable showing in fattening cattle. If one-half of what is claimed by the United States Department of Agricul ture and the Jamaica Agriculture So ciety be realized, the problem of what to do with tho vast areas of almost arid lands of the Gulf states is to be solved by "cassava." Had It in Various Assortments. It was in one of the big department stores. "What do you wish to-day, madam?" asked the courteous floor walker. "Nothing. I-" "Sixteenth floor. Take the ele vator. We have nothing there in iarge and varied assortments. Jame3, ring the bell for the lady. "-Harper's Bazar, Remains of an Old-Timer. The skeleton of a prehistoric; sea monster resembling a shark was un earthed recently at the quarry of J. H. Davis, who lives ten miles south of Bonham, Texas. 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