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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA J L. C. HAYJfB, Pres't P. G.FOED, Caahlor. I Capital, ?250,000. ^ j Undivided ?rollls \ $1 25,000 JFaciUtlea of our magnificent Mew Vault! [containing 410 Safety-Lock Boxee. Differ lent Sizes aro offered to our pr.trons and the public at $3.00 to $10.00 per annum. VOL. LXV1I. EDGEFIELD. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBEE 3. 1902. PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS AUGUSTA, GA. Payo Interest on Deposita. Accounts Solicited. |L. C. Hayne, President. Chas, C. Howard Cashier NO. 49. Two More o? Om Series of Tombs of the Presidents Thonms Jeflerflou. At Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson was burled. The plain granite shaft at the grave bears an inscription, prepared by Jef ferson himself, setting forth that it is the burial place of tho author of the Declaration of Independence. Wm ~ ^Andrew Jackson. Like several- of the early Presidents, Andrew Jackie i was hurled beside his vife, at his homestead. The Hermitage, aear Nashville, Tennessee. This tor ler of the estate was afterward bought ?y the women of Tennessee and given ? the State? ? - - Tran-[>;; r!u ti DM in Si CW Yorlt. The elevated railroads of Manhattan ind The Bronx are unmatched by any >pen-air steam railroad system in the tvorld in the number of passengers iarricd each year. The report of the Dusiness done by these elevated rail roads for the year that ended June 30 ast shows that in that year 21?.U0U.OU0 passengers (round ; numbers; were transported without accident to one ?f these passengers excepting some liding bruises.-Philadelphia Press. Woman at Railroad Crossing. The feminine guardiau of a railroad rrossing ls a type well known to trav-. .lers in France. As thc-. train Ap proaches a crossing oru og an apron with wondrous strT md a queer-looking l?icJv...hat made )f waxed cloth, similar in shape to the )ld straw hat of the Jack-Tar bf by rone nays. This hat is only worn shen a train goes by, presumably to rive a certain amount of official dignity GUARDING A FRENCH BA ?LROAD CBOSSIXG to the Wearer when on duty. Slung around the left arm is the trumpet with which warning is given to pedes trains and others of the approach of a train, and in the right hand is seen tne red flag, which is kept rolled round the stock when the road is clear, and only unfurled as a danger signal. A man has to have a pretty hard cheek to travel on his face. , . 6 IT'S THE PACI Auto- "What was your record last Trolley-"Seven." - Auto-*Oh! You're dead slow. Mir Trolley-"Yes. but I once nearly kil /ou can't beat that."-Philadelphia lng; A REMARKABLE "CATCH." Nino-Year-Old Girl Land* (1 Muer; -*O?CC 1 Tcnud Fish. Miss Kathleen Dunsmuir, ?he nine- ( year-old daughter of the Premier of . British Columbia, succeeded . t lony j ago in landing the monster tish in tho j illustration, which actually weighed 1 A NINE-YEAR-OLD FISHER MAIDEN'S RE- ! MAREADLE" CATCn. ninety-seven pounds and measured ' over five feet, considerable more than the little lady who made so successful a haul. Tho catch was effete " from a steamer anchored in Union Bay, British Columbia, a strong salmon line "and salmon bait- being used, and so delighted wore tho crew with her suc cess ^ that nothing, would satisfy them j but that the small fishcrwoman aud her- giant-tish- should be-photographed j to^ctlrcr. - -- A Woman's' Untrleldy l.ond. Hardly anywhere in the world does , the "traveler see men, women and chil- j dreu staggering under loads so nu- ? wieldy as in Mexico. The photo, re produced-taken iu Pcotlan, Mexico shows a native girl with both hands full of baskets and a stack of hats on her head which would crush an ordi nary American man. A Mexican worn- i an will walk the streets all day carry- | From a Photo by Win.cUl Scott "HARDLY ANYWHERE XS THE WORLD DOES THE TRAVELER ?EE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN STAGGERING UNDER LOADS SO UNWIELDY AS IV MEXICO." mg such a burden and look and feel none the tireder for it.-The "Wide \Y\\ld Magazine. The Dancer-one Lie The most dangerous thing about a lie is that a word one? uttered can never he obliterated. Some one has said that lying is a worse crime than counter feiting. There is some hope of follow ing up bad coins until they are all re covered, but an evil word can never be overtaken.. Tho mind of the hearer or reader has been poisoned, and hum ?J devices cannot reach in and cleanse it. Lies can never be called back.-Xe'v York News. Tho Punishment Suiuclent. Thc law has no penalty for stealing a heart, because the punishment of having it left "on your -hands is enough. -New York Press. "Majuba" was the name given to a new sulphurous yellow-colored rose re cently exhibited in Paris. Another black red variety was called "Boor Courage." S THAT KILLS." week?" io was nine." led a President of [hu tinted .States; uirer. i I \ MINING ANTHRACITE. I How loe Pennsylvania Coal Fields^ Are Worked. (I li THE word anthracite, which has become such a vital part of the life of the American people, is a striking example of how the world becomes dependent on what maj' be termed the latter-day progress of mankind. Just 100 years ago Philadelphia received her first shipment of anthracite coal. It came to the city lu two great river arks, and was used to gravel the sidewalks. A small quantity of this coal was burned in a grate, but the experiment was not a success, and in 1800, when another ark load of coal tied up at the wharf In the Quaker city it was rejected no oue wanted it. In 1SU8 Judge Fell; of Wilkesbarre, successfully burned anthracite in a grate. In LS12 another effort was made to market anthracite coal in Philadelphia,' but niue wagon loads which were scut there from PottsvinVhad tb be given away. The real history of the anthracite coal industry begins in 1820, when 303 tons of coal were shipped to Philadel phia from the Lehigh region. During the next ten years the trade from the Lehigh regions was firmly established, and the Schuylkill region was opened up upon the completion of water com munication with Philadelphia. During the latter part of this period the Dela ware and HudsoiuCanal Company was organized and began the shipment of COAL BltEAKER, SHOWING MET! CITE COAL F< I anthracite from Carbondale by the canal and the gravity railroad. From this time on the trade rapidly increased, canals and gravity roads multiplied, only to be replaced by loco motives on their advent. One of the first locomotives used in this country was for the purpose of hauling anthra cite. The process of mining anthracite coal consists of two methods-stripping and closed work. Stripping ts the process where the coal lies near the surface of the ground as it does in many in stances in the anthracite field. The closed work is that done under ground, or nt the bottom of a shaft. Owing to the character of the deposits the room and pillar system is employed. When the shaft cannot be placed so as to reach the lowest point of the deposit, th coal below is reached by luside or blind shafts or inside slopes. These shafts, which are sometimes sunk to a depth of over 1000 feet, usually have several- compart mein s, oue for the pumpway and ladder, and two or inore for hoisting. A common size of the hoisting compartments is 7x12 feet. The coal is brought to the bottom ol' the shaftfromthe inside or blind shafts by means of small cars, and in some in stances sheet iron chutes, according lo the inclination of the shaft, according as the blind shaft slopes up or down from the bottom of the shaft from the ! surface. Anthracite is mined with hand rotary drills and by black blasting powder. Dynamite or giant powder is used for rock work, sometimes for 'driving gangways, and in some locations for blasting coal itself where lire damp necessitates a nameless explosive. The mines are ventilated by rotary fans. The law requires that each miner shah be supplied with at least 200 cullie feet of air per minute. Fire damp is preva lent in many of the anthracite shaft?, necessitating the use of safety lamps by the miners. The cost of mining anthracite coal ls greater than tho cost of mining bitu minous coal, and this cost does not -md when the coal is landed at the surface of the miue. Anthracite as it comes from the mino consists of lumps of va rious sizes,", and intermixed willi those lumps is a- mixture of rodes. Those lumps must be brpkcil and assorted as to size Before the anthracite is ready for, the market, since the economic uso i of anthracite requires that l.tc lumps mupt be of as near uniform size as pos sible, audas then? is a greater demand foi-; the intermediate sizes, the larger lumps must be broken down io smaller ! sizes. Thia elaborate pn-parafou greatly increases the coal of tho eoal. -Anthracite is prepared for market in what is known as thc coal breaker, a large building, usually built of timber, but sometimes of steel and Iron: The coal is broken up by machinery con sisting of toothed rolls, after which it is screened in circular revolving screens. The slate ls picked out by j liaqd by boys and old men. who *it ?long the chutes through which thc | con 1 posses. As far as possible the work of sorting sizes and picking out impurities ls done bj* machinery. As tho illustration shows, the general plan is to sort thc coal over Inclined bars, then to pass what goes through the bars over revolving or shaking screens, while what goes through goes directly to the loading bins, or else is broken up into smaller sizes by rolls and then Separated into the varions sizes by screens. Thc capacity of the average breaker is from 2000 to 3000 tons of coal a day. The tendency of recent year?? has been to uso more of the smaller s'zes of anthracite, and consequently the. breaking has been done with this end iu view. Cut ???nt- Surgirai Cns?. The popular belief that a man who receives a wound from a bullet in thu heart is bound to die therefrom almost instantaneously is now seen to bo un founded, for at the last meeting of the French Academy of Medicine Dr. Pey rat told of a" man who was restored to health after Iiis heart had beeu pierced by a ball from a revolver. The wound ed man, he said, was placed lu a hos pital in Pai ls, and Dr. Launay, a note-.; surgeon, operated on him then; with great success. According to Dr. Tey rat this is the only case of the kind on record. True, statistics recently compiled by Dr. Dentu, sliow that out of every hundred persons who receive wounds in the heart from swords or daggers fn.m thirty to forty-two are cured, but. though medical books have been carefully searched, iio record has been found In them of a man who has been rescued from death after his heart had been perforated by a ball. HOD OF PREPARING ANTHRA DII MARKET. ..Far Went" Wiped out. A publishing house in this city, says the Chicago Chronicle, has received au order from tho Yukon region for books expressive of what is now "the "far" Northwest. The order includes Gibbon's Rome, Macaulay's England, the writings of John Stuart Mill, of Flammarion and other engaging sci entists, graphic novels, humorous stories, but none of Bret Harte's. The Far West of Bret Harte is at the van ishing point. A hurry postcript ob served that tho navigation season is short and that only letter mail is car ried over tlie iee. In trot li. there is no longer any "far" West or "far" Northwest. The rugged and often illiterate humanity that cleft the mountains and swam the rivers, opening up a new empire for all the world, is also of the past. The universal free school sends a dif ferent multitude now to the advancing frontier. Sturdy but not illiterate, the new pioneers want books wherever they go, and science and Hie organized forces ;d" civilization enable them to gratify their taste. Culture is no lon ger a monopoly of thu older portions of tho country. Tho Telephone In Corsica. Ajaecio, in Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon, has a new telephone service. At present its subscribers are three in number. Photograph by Minmi & Co. The Hon. Michael Henry Herbert. j (SucccHHiT tn Lord l'aunccfote UH Uritish Amba sudor to thc United StntCH.) Brussels has a church clock wounc up by atmospheric expansion iudutec by the heat ol' the suu. Wim OF THE SHADOW. MEN WHO ARE EMPLOYED TO WATCH EMPLOYES OF BANKS. Thorn Ari" ?bout COO or Them in Now York ^ity Alone-Ono of Them Tolls of HI.? Meit hod? - Tho Story or One Fool ish Yo (ins Mau-Discharged Employes. in the borough of Manhattan every day there are somewhere in the neigh borhood of 500 persons shadowed, none of whom knows as he goes his way that ho is being watched. Nor does be- know that the sword hangs over bis head suspended by a thread that may be cut at any moment by his shadower. These men whose fato is held In the palm of the hand of a private, detective are all employed in hanks, national, state and savings. There ?re also other big corporations which employ detectives to follow their employes after hours, "so as to get a line on the lifo that they lead after hnurs," a detective employed in this particular line put it to-day. Many hank presidents believe that by em ploying'a detective to shadow every tody employed in the institution the chancey for a defaulter are reduced to a minitium. And yet the case of Sara? uel C.;, Seeley, employed for eleven years as bookkeeper In the Shoe and Leather National Bank, might b" cited to demonstrate that this method of vigilance 1B not infallible. Through Seeley -?the bank lp eleven years lost $354,000. He was a model bookkeeper, the real kind of a home man. That was shown-by the fact that he got for his share m actual cash only $11,000 and most of this he spent in Joctors' bills for hlst-family. Seeley, like every other employe in the Shoe and Leather Bank, was sha dowed;'-hi8 home life was known; he was reported as a model man. Where the. vigilance of the bank's manage ment went astray was in not shadow ing Seeley's accomplice, a lawyer who had many real estate transactions. The accomplice one day overdrew his ac count. Seeley knew that if he notified the cashier he would be discharged, so he called on the lawer and asked him to refund the money (it was only $100).,The lawyer explained that he had a big real estate deal on and he could not put it through in time to save Seeley unless he had more money -$5,00fJ. That was the beginning of Seieleys' downfall. The model home man consented. When tho lawyer on the following day presented a check for $5,200, the paying teller asked See ley how the account stood. Seeley said that the check was all right and thc lawyer got the money. To coyer up his tracks, Seeley de det?cted from accounts that never were touched, so that at night his ac counts balanced. He never took a vaca tion, '^jL-^Y^n^av-jday off in eleven ices he was a mo shadow Seeley, but tS?t "would not reveal the- true state of affairs. Ho was with his family every night; he was a sunday school superintendent; he never bet on the races. And so even wih the precautions that are taken by all financial institu tions and big corporations to prevent defalcations it is impossible to tell where the next man will got a million or more dishonestly. In the system that the banks have to-day there Is a chance to learn where to look for a possible defalcation, no matter how cleverly the man's tracks arc covered up, and there ls al=:o an opportuniy to find out all about employes. A man who has been at this work in the de tective line for more than twelve years talked about his work the other day. "I am employed," he said, "by the president of about the biggest bank in this city, and that means the biggest bank in tho United States. Every day in the year, neither Sundays nor holi days excluded, I shadow comebody in employ of the bank. No one knows about my work except the president. I am not on the bank payroll. I receive my salary in a roundabout way. I have not seen the president in all the years that I have been in his employ. "On the ordinary work dav s I begin my labor at 3 o'clock, the time of clos ing the bank. I have a list of all the employes and I know every one by sight. I select each day the man that I am going to shadow. For five years I used to wait for my man, rain or shine, on the street nea:* the bank building, but now I go to an office a cross the street. It's pleasanter, be cause there's no telling when my man will quit work. Take the case of the cashier. He may stay until 7 o'clock sometimes. When he ieaves thc office 1 must be on his trail. I watch him come out, and from then until he is sound asleep I keep on his trail.. If he goes directly home I trail him to the door. Then I wait outside until about 10 o'clock, and if he doesn't come out I at that hour leave. If on the other hand he goes out for a night I record very carefully everything he does. "I remember about four years ago the president notified me that I hadn't made a report to him on an assistant teller in three months. As a matter of fact, 1 had been so busy looking after a man who led a model life, but who, I was certain, was speculating in the stock market, that I had forgotten the young man. I picked him up one after noon as he came out of the office, and he did lead me a chase. He met a young Avoman and drove to the Wal dorf, where they had dinner. So did L From tile restaurant they went to tho theatre and afterward had a din ner. So far the night had not cost him a cent less than $20 or $30. Ho drove the girl homo, stayed a half hour and kept tho hansom waiting. From the young woman's house that man drove straight to Dick Canfield's gambling house. I was after him. I had to 'hitch' on behind his hansom. When he went into Can fi edd's I was up against a stone wall at first, but I finally got hold af the bald-headed man who usually looks sftcr everything when lie is not in the chair watching tho dealer. I explained mj mission to him and ho let mo in, having had his conscience greased with a $50 bill. "I found my man at the crazy wheel, playing hard and fnst. It did not take him long to get rid of $300-1 forgot to say that it was tho day before pay day, a time when most workers are Urokfl, Well, from Canfields* my quar- . ry went to tho tenderloin, and there ? blew in $100. I dropped him at his home at 5:30 A. M. He waa discharged immediately after my report was re ceived "Now there was a foolish young man as I afterward found out. He was not short in his accounts. He had plenty of money of his own, but he was dis charged just because of his high roller tendency. However, the president would take no chaneca with him. I sup pose that in all the while that I have been in th? bank's employ fifteen or twenty men have been discharged be cause of my reports on their lives out side thc bank."-New York Sun. SALTED HIS WELL IN VAIN. 1'rtllurc of a Farmer to gell Ul? Form ns Oil Lnnil. "Some years ago," said th? narrator, "an oil boom hit Litchtfield, III., and everybody for ipiles around waa seen sniffling for oil and every stranger was suspected of being an expert looking for a good thing. An old farmer named Loomis had a big place three miles out of town, wh.'ch would have been a fortune for him had he not been pos sessed of a mania for swapping, mani fest in a perennial attempt to trade off his land for twice its value. "When the boom was at the top notch Loomis received a visitor who took so much interest in thc farm, so liked its appearance, location, etc., that the old farmer scented a petro leum man and saw visions of incalcula ble wealth. Being a shrewd man, Loom is did not care to take any unnecessary chances with Providence, and on the quiet he sent the> hired man out thc back way with orders to dump the kerosene can -into the well. The visi tor liked, the entire place, inspected the barn, the chicken yard, and then, as if by chance asked for a drink of water. "Loomis was waiting for that, and hauled up a brimming bucket hefore tho man's own eyes and poured him out a gourdful of liquid witil a fine, op alescent scum noon it. The visitor smelled lt, tasted it made a wry face, and asked if the water was always like that. 'Oh, yes,' said Loomis, 'but you soon get usa! to the taste, and our doctors fray this is the finest wa ter on earth for the stomach.' Well, I am ding danged if I'll ever get used to it,' was thc unexpected response. 'I am looking for a farm, not an oil well, and :f I have got to haul my drinking water three miles from Litchfield I guess I'd rather buy nearer town.' "It tcok Loomis six months to get tho taste of oil out cf his 1 ?ll, and by that time the boom was over and noth ing was left of the oil craze but rot ting derricks and abandoned shafts." New-Orleans Times-Democrat. GUAINT AND CURIOUS. Both is an Australian IBWMBHBB a.glassy space on the | wings crossed ^Vith ribs. When" th j moth wants to whistle it strikes these ribs with its antcnnal, which have a knob at th? end. The sound is a love cail from thc male to the female. The Hungarian minister of the inte rior lias issued a decree ordaining that ali waitresses in cafes, restaurants, tea shops and so forth must be at least 40 years of age. The decree came into force on Sept. 1, and threw many young women out of employment. Judge Henry Redwine the other day took to Phoenix, Ariz., a story of an active volcano in a smoking lake 21 miles from Texica at tho base of the mountains across the Mexican line. The Indians who formerly lived in the neighborhoou have moved away since the Jake 1 egan spouting columns of mud and fire. The white settlers are seriously considering the same course. The lake is 14 miles long and three miles broad. The water is almost con stantly boning and at times gigantic columns are thrown up amid which fire plays. Hogs have a strange habit which those who have noticed them at night are acquainted with. If you pass a bog bed en the side of the road or in an old covered bridge, sometimes one will follow or trail you for miles, lt Coes not. seem vicious, but just keeps near. Perhaps it is a lingering instinct of its wild nature, following as a kind o? sentinel to see that the other hogs are not threatened, just as the wild horses in South America, when a foe appears, will wheel into a semi-circle and present to their enemy an un bioken phalanx of heels. One of the novelties of design in a Chicago rower station is the white enameling of all the motive power equipment The engine room is finished with a white enamel wainscoting, and with the white engines, switchboard, generators and motors it makes a very striking and unusual picture. The pip ing is necessarily covered with asbes tos, so that the whole room presents a clean and pleasant aspect. The only pprts of the machinery which are not pure white are those in direct contact with steam, such as heads of cylinders, etc., which are painted with aluminum bronze. A London physician of large prac tice asserts that owing to his extreme ly sensitive sense of smell, he can foretell che coming of death 48 hours. He says that when a patient comes within two days of death a peculiar earthy smell is emitted from the body. When the latal disease is slow in its progress Hie odor makes its appearance as much as three days beforehand; but when the disease is of the gal loping kind the doctor says he re ceives much shorter warning. He at tributes Hie smell to mortification which begins wi'hin the body before life is extinct. Dogs are I bought to have this some, for hunting bounds have been observed to begin a mourn ful baying a day or two before their masters died. A FHond I n X.-i'd. Bcotem-Pshaw! I must have $20 by noon today, and I left all my money at home in my other clothes. Can't you help me out? Wiseman-Sure. I'll lend you car fare to go home for it.-Philadelphia Press. Large shipments of ihi best makes of\ wagons aid buggies just received. Our stock of furni ture and housefurnishing is complete. Large Stock of Coffins and Caskets alwags on hand. 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