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tumorous Department. Too Much.?The Man of the Future sat back in ease in his luxurious armchair, his feet arranged before him I along the line of least resistance. At his elbow was a keyboard that connected with the outer world. He touched a button, and through a j gold-mounted transmitter was thrust his morning paper. He touched an- , other, and a tray containing his break- * fast rosev before him. It seemed an easy thing to do. He ^ had but to lift his finger. A phonograph began calling off the nnenine of the stock market. A piano attachment gave out the strains of the latest opera. Three friends In distant parts of the Empire bade him good morning, and communicated some piece of gossip In response to his inquiry. He talked with the manager of his office, with his tailor, his air-ship maker, his architect. With him it was indeed a busy day. Finally his head sank back. He was overcome by the unusual exertion. He looked worried. His wife entered. "What is the matter, dear?" she said. "Isn't everything all right?" "No," replied the Man of the Future, testily. "I can't stand this pressure. I've simply got to have some one to press these buttons for me."?Life. The Tipping Tyranny.?Two energetic, hard-working little business women had finished their meagre luncheon at a restaurant. They were figuring out the amount of their checks, and decided that they owed 20 and 25 . cents, respectively. "*? o Hr*?" the Are juu suing iu u ..r little one asked. "I'm tempted not to," returned the other. "The nerve and impudence of these horrid men waiters are becoming unbearable." r "I shall never, never, tip again," said r . the little one grimly. "Yesterday I was r not hungry and my check came to 20 1 cents. I put down an extra nickel. At 1 first Mr. Waiter seemed not to notice * it, but as I was about to leave the ta- 1 ble he said, most impudently, 'Do you v want this carfare bit; I don't.' I sup- I pose he thought I would not take it c back, but I did." ? "It was on Monday, I think, that I v had my . experience," said the other I woman. "I asked the waiter to bring u me small change for a dollar bill. He brought me four quarters. 1 " 'Is that small enough for you* he to sneered. a " 'Yes, it's small enough for me,' I ' snapped back, 'but it isn't small t enough for you to get a tip,' and I sail- f ed out."?New York Tribune. ^ . , f Nor on His Own Time.?Charles M. c Schwab, on the day he sailed for Eu- s rope on the Kronprinz Wilhelm, said ' that he believed America offered to 1 workingmen more opportunities than 0 any other country. r "The workingman, though," he add- a ed, "must be of the right kind. He ^ must not be like the Greek I heard of " recently. i "This chap, having come to Amer- ica, secured a good laboring job at 511 t a week. But he did not get on well. ^ He was continually afraid of doing 1 more than he was paid for. J "They say that a gentleman, passing a one day the new building the Greek ' was working on, saw him lying on his 1 stomach on the sidewalk. His face was 1 pale; a succession of loud groans arose 0 from him. " 'What is the matter with that fel- ^ low?' the gentleman said. "An Irishman replied that he was r sick. " 'Well,' said the gentleman, 'if he is sick why doesn't he go to the hospi- li tal and get some relief. * d "The Irishman laughed scornfully. 6 " 'Do you think he'd go to the hos- t pital in his dinner hour?' he said." a i t , c Speckilation.?Baron Moncheur, the 1 Belgian minister, visited Baltimore last 0 month. At a dinner in Baltimore he d said: "The spirit of business enterprise and * speculation is what Impresses me most 1 profoundly in America. For instance, 1 I was riding one day on the outskirts c of Washington, and at a certain place I dismounted and got a little boy to c hold my horse. I was gone about 10 c minutes, and on my return I found the * first boy gone, and another, smaller ' one. standing at the horse's head. 2 " 'How is this?' I said. 'You are not J the boy I left my horse with.' "'No,' said the tiny urchin; 'I speculated and bought the job off the other fellow for a dime.' "Of course, after that," the minister ended, "it was impossible for me to 'bear' the market." Had to Keep His Word.?At a not distant school the other day a grave infraction of discipline was committed. The teacher was very angry and called upon the guilty party to confess. Not one in the class would tell, however, so the teacher said he would thrash every boy in the room and then he would be sure to find the right one. This threat was carried out, the teacher starting with the first boy and thrashing every boy but one. Finally I as he reached that last one his anger I had cooled a little. Thinking to be ^ lenient, he said: t "Now, tell me who did this and I 1 won't thrash you." ? s "All right, sir," was the reply. "I t did It." And the schoolmaster had to keep his word.?Philadelphia Press. ( ( A Flourishing Business.?A promi- i nent actor tells this story about two t brother players and their experiences t in a Maine temperanc^ town. Feeling f in need of alcoholic refreshment, they c made application at the local drug 1 stores, but Were told that stimulants f were sold only in cases of snake bite, t The actors had about decided to con- 1 tent themselves with such refreshment t as the town provided when they heard c that a certain resident owned a rattle- r snake which he kept as a pet. Secur- a ing his address, they called on him and offered to hire his snake for use in r some scientific experiments. i "Nothing doing!" answered the own- a er. "He's booked solid for four months e ahead."?Harper's Weekly. I ^ftiscfUanrous grading. FROM CONTEMPORARIES. Jews and Comment That Is of More or Less Local Interest LANCASTER. Ledger, June 25: During the storm ast Saturday night a large dead oak ree near the corner of the barn of dr. J. C. Nelson, of the Jacksonham :ection, was struck by lightning and let afire. The tree had to be cut down efore the fire could be extinguished and or a while the barn of Mr. Nelson was n imminent danger of catching afire rom the flying sparks. It took an lour or more to fell the tree dr. Wm. D. Cook, an aged and res>ected citizen of the Sincerity neigh orhood died yesterday morning after i protracted illness of dropsy. He was i native of North Carolina and came o this county about thirty years ago. Se was 62 years of age and leaves a vidow and three children surviving lim. He was a consistent member of Jion Methodist church and his renalns will be interred there at 11 'clock a. m., today after funeral services by his pastor. Rev. Mr. Counts. Miss Josie Carroll of Yorkville vho has been visiting Miss Hattie Eliott this week, returned home yeserday A big crowd of colored ixcursior.ists from Westvllle and Kerihaw, passed through here yesterday tn route for Charlotte. About 200 nore got aboard the train at this place. ...Another aged citizen of the couny and a veteran of the Confederate irmy has gone to nis reward, an. Tohn C. Stover died at his home at Cershaw last Wednesday night after t protracted illness at the advanced ige of 82 years. CHESTER. Lantern, June 24: At the prayer neeting at the A. R. P. church Wedlesday afternoon, the Rev. Jas G. Dale nade an impromptu address which was ntensely interesting. The power of he speaker's words came chiefly from he nature of the facts presented and he speaker's manifest zeal in his rork as a missionary in Mexico. Mr. )ale is especially near to the A. R. P. ongregation here, being a brother of 4rs. M. E. White. Mrs. Dale who, vith one of her children, is with Mr. )ale, is a medical missionary and is a nost zealous and successful worker. Mrs. Eliza J., wife of Mr. B. C. lorton, died of consumption at her lome at the Springstein Wednesday bout 1 o'clock, aged 48 years. She eaves a husband and five children, hree sons and two daughters. The uneral services were conducted at the iome at 3 o'clock by Rev. J. S. Mofatt and the burial was in Evergreen emetery Mr. James Orr of Knox Itation, died last night after a long llness from dropsy, aged 72 years. ?he funeral service and burial will be il Uia rurny grave jaru una auuloon at G o'clock. His wife, three sons nd four daughters survive him The melting of Bullrun grange last Saturday marked an era in its history. The meetings were held at Old Purty church until that building was furnt. Last Saturday's meeting was leld In their new hall, at Evans staion. This building was erected for the olnt use of the grange and the school, ind is a monument to the public spirt and the liberality of the grange and he neighborhood. Bullrun grange can race its history back to the early days >f the organization In this state. There vas a period of suspended animation luring the brief days of the Alliance, ,fter which it revived, and interest has lever abated. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, June 24: At the lome of Esquire Jacob Kiser last Sunlay morning. Mr. Robert Haynes, aged 6, became an ex-widower by taking o himself as a bride Mrs. Sallle Word, ged 24. Esquire Kiser performed the eremony and they went rejoielng on heir way In an interesting game >f ball played at King's Mountain Tueslay afternoon between the teams of Cing's Mountain and McAdenville, the ormer won by a score of 6 to 4. The atteries were as follows: King's fountain?Reagan, pitcher, and Rowe atcher; McAdenville?Shuford pitchir, and Bentley catcher. About thirty if Gastonia's baseball cranks went lown to witness the game Cards vere received here yesterday announcng the marriage on Wednesday, the I2nd, of Mr. John Hemphill Wilkins md Miss Amy Lee Lynch, at Bessener City. The groom is a young busne?s man of ability, being the manager of the Southern Cotton Mill's itore. The bride is a daughter of Dr. ind Mrs. William Saxton Lynch and s prominent in Bessemer social cir les. Both of the contracting parties iave friends in Gastonia who congratllate them on the happy event and vish for them many years of unaloyed pleasure and prosperity The ?oray Mill will be completely equip)ed with machinery and ready for the lew season's cotton crop within the lext three months. Such was the decision made at a stockholders' meetng held in the company's uptown office ruesday. Those present were Messrs. Stewart W. Cramer of Charlotte, J. Dana Cloudman of Atlanta, John F. _,ove and G. A. Gray of Gastonia. A'hen all the machinery is installed his mill will have 60,000 spindles and .600 looms. This increase will necessitate a considerable addition to the lumber of operatives employed. Gun. Sam Houston's Indian Wire.? General Sam Houston lived at Port Gibson, where he married his Cheroeee wife. Talihina Rogers, said to have >een the most beautiful woman in the ribe. whose remains are to be transerred to the United States National emetery at Fort Gibson. Houston ived for a time across Grand river rom the old fort, on the farm owned >y Gip Scott. The house in which he ived has long since disappeared, but wo pear trees which the "Liberator >f Texas" planted are still standing as nonuments to this great man's stay imong the Cherokees. "His last residence in the Cherokee rntion was at Wilson's Rock, on the Arkansas river, about fifteen miles ibove Fort Smith, from which he started on horsffcHgfa^i^?^^, to lead the >atriot &i ^^|jis beauti^ > ful Cherokee wife did not long: survive his departure, and died a few years later, and was buried In a beautiful grove near a cedar tree, on an eminence overlooking the Arkansas river, where, after a repose of over sixty years, her remains are to be removed to the United States National cemetery ! at Fort Gibson, to be marked by a suitable monument bearing the inscrlp- i tlon: "Sacred to the Memory of Talihlna, Cherokee Wife of General Sam Houston, Liberator of Texas."?Fort Gibson Post. cncwTinr. MISCELLANY. Surprising Effect From Slight Cause? Eye Photography?The Reversed Lo? comotive?A Coming Harvest of Changes?Nerve Waves and Radiations? Sound Dampening?Korean Science?A Zoological Puzzle?A Jap's Illusion. About a dozen years ago M. Rlchter showed that the mysterious fires in benzine cleaning establishments are due to electricity, which produces sparks as pieces of wool are drawn from the combustible, fluid on cool or dry days, and he found that the sparks could be prevented by adding magnesium oleate?even as little as 0.02 per cent?to the benzine. The reason of this remarkable effect of the oleate has not been understood. It has now been investigated by G. Just at Karlsruhe, and he finds that the conductivity of the benzine is very slightly increased, this change being sufficient to prevent the accumulation of dangerous electric charges. In pure benzine an electrode kept its charge for minutes, while in the diluted oleate solution it refused to take any charge. A new camera of great importance, photographing for the first time the Interior or back of the eye, is the production of Dr. Walther Thorner of Berlin. A telescope-like focusing glass gives accurate focus under the mild illumination of a kerosene lamp, and a flash-light ignited by an electric spark impresses the image upon the plate. The pictures show the variations of the eye in health and disease, making it possible now to follow the progress of disease step by step. The new four-cylinder compound locomotive of the Adriatic railway, Italy, is claimed to yield 9 pounds of steam per pound of coal, an increase of 2 pounds over the old style of engine. The cab is in front of the boiler, the smoke-stack at the rear, the low front truck admitting a furnace of unusual width and depth. Remarkable power results. The 300 aerolites of the nineteenth century furnished nine instances of the fall of two stones on the same day in two successive years. This suggests steams of stones in space. "Electrochemistry," says a practical worker in this new field, "is a virgin continent of undeveloped possibilities." The electrolytic refining of copper has grown already into a great industry, and calcium carbide is now produced by the electric furnace by thousands of tons annually, while the electric refining of other metals and the production of other carbides on a large scale are to be expected soon. Even silicon, the most abundant of metals, but one of the most difficult to reduce from its oxide is now offered, fresh from the electric furnace, at a fraction of a dollar a pound. In the direct preparation of metallic compounds "from the metals, the transformation of metallic salts into other compounds, the fixation of the nitrogen of the air, the electrification of soils, the sterilization of water by electrically made ozone, the dislnfec tion of sewage, and hundreds of other likely developments, electrochemistry gives promise of future industrial and commercial revolutions. Waves In nerve responses were shown some years ago by Dr. Charpentier, the French physiologist, by the fading away of luminous impressions in flashes. In his later experiments he has proven that radiations from nervous tissue increase the brightness of phosphorescent calcium sulphide, and that nervous energy having the same effect can be transmitted to the screen of calcium sulphide over a wire. This has enabled him to detect and even measure the oscillations of intensity. The nerve-oscillations are found to number from 750 to 800 per second, with a wave-length of an inch and a half; and with two wires the effect can be made to vanish in a way that demonstrates wave interference. The sound-deadening arrangements tried on the Berlin elevated railway include felt under and at the sides of the rails, wood-filled car wheels, steel and wood ties resting on sand, and cork-lined floor planks. Dow rails on deep wooden stringers proved the most effective. The distinct compounds from coaltar have increased from 454 in 1894 to 695, not less than 300 of the present products being dyes. The system of identification by finger prints proves to be not so new as we have supposed. A London clergyman, Rev. Mr. Collyer, was missionary in Korea for some years, and he reports that the Koreans?a sharp witted people, by the way?have long made use of finger prints in the deeds for the sale of slaves. He has been able to trace the practice back, in fact, for 1200 years. The slaves are all women, and each is required to place her hand upon the sheet of paper on which the deed is written, the outline of the fingers and thumb being traced after which an ink impression of each of the fingers is taken. The reappearance of sharks in the Baltic sea. after an absence of one hundred and fifty years, is causing much speculation among naturalists. One explanation is that the fishes have been led to return by the recent unusual climatic conditions. Another guess Is that the configuration of the bottom of the sea has been changed by earthquakes. and that this may have forced the sharks to abandon their later haunts and take refuge in their earlier homes. Protective mimicry in insects takes i many curious forms. One of the most , striking, lately shown at a meeting of the Selborne society in London, is that of a tiny insect from Costa Rica, which is a perfect morlel of a rose thorn, and i which escapes Its natural enemies by , ranging jiself in perfect sympathy with the real thorns on the bush. An interesting optical illusion has been brought to notice by T. Terada, of Tokio. Lycopodium powder on the surface of water is made to gyrate by a jet of air, and after this has been regarded steadily and the eyes have been i turned toward a table near, the sur- | face of the table appears to move in a direction contrary to that of the ly- 1 copodium. ' A GIGANTIC UNDERTAKING. Survey of Work to be Done on Panama Canal. Dr. C. A. Stephens, who has been well known for a generation as a writer of stories of adventure for boys, has recently visited Panama, where he has had excellent opportunities for observing the great project the nation has undertaken there. Americans speak glibly of the possibility of a tide-level canal at Panama. Of this Dr. Stephens says: "It is not all easy matter to estimate the exact amount of earth which would have to be removed to get a clear channel across the Isthmus, thirty-flve feet below low tide at Colon and at LaBoca on the Bay of Panama. But computing it at the various levels, step by step up to the Culebra, through this vast cut and beyond, deducting what the French appear to have done, we obtain 446,000,000 cubic yards as a very conservative estimate of what remains to be removed In order to have an open ditch from ocean to ocean, 150 feet wide at the bottom, with 35 feet of standing water in it. as to uie length of time required, we have to guide us only what the new French company have done. It Is agreed on all hands, however, that they have worked with a fair degree of diligence and with honesty. "During their most successful year, 1897, the new company employed 3,600 men and removed, mainly in the Culebra cut, 960,000 cubic metres, chiefly earth. This was by far the best ever done by the French. Adding 40 per cent to this 960,000 metres, for better American methods and better machines, and assuming that the United States will employ 20,000 laborers In place of 3,600, we find that to remove the 341,600,000 cubic metres forty-six years and nine days will be required, or until 1951. By employing 30,000 laborers the work might be done In about thirty-one years. More than 30,000 men could not be advantageously worked there. At best, therefore, allowing nothing for contingencies or accidents, a tidewater canal at Panama could not be completed before 1936 ?so that few of the present generation would see it. Immense Cost of Tidewater Canal. "As to the cost of a tidewater canal at Panama, reckoning laborers' wages at only a dollar a day, and the salaries of engineers, foremen, etc., at equally reasonable rates; adding present cost, figures for machinery, tools, exp'osives, transportation, hospital equipment and maintenance, with the thousand other minor expenses, and to this the Interest on the money as used for thirty years, at 3 per cent; I am unable to find the amount called for to construct a tidewater canal at less than $570,000,000, or adding the price of the canal from the French company, $610,000,000." Magnitude of the Project. Dr. Stephens in other ways makes more distinct than .do the formal-reports the size of the project to which we are already committed. The Culebra cut he describes as the greatest thing of its kind ever undertaken by man. When complete it will be threefifths of a mile wide at the top, falling off to a width of 150 feet at the bottom, Into which the great lake made by the dam at Bohio will flow back, filling It to a depth of 35 feet. From the top of the Culebra on the north side of the cut the depth will be nearly or quite 400 feet. These figures, he says, convey little idea of the tremendous quantity of earth and rock which must be removed. It is not until one descends into this vast trench and marks how tiny the locomotives and great excavators look when seen in the prodigious depth and breadth of the excavation that a conception of the herculean labor dawns on the mind. It is like Niagara, and must be contemplated for awhile. At first sight it might be thought that a thousand men, operating 90 or 100 of these steam excavators, would dig it out in a year; but by the time the visitor has walked and climbed about the cut for an hour or two he can readily believe that the task may occupy 5,000 men, with machines, for ten years. The temperature in the cut he describes as intense. The lofty, bare sides of the excavation accumulate heat like the walls of an oven. The seething steam boilers add to the calorific glow. It makes the eyeballs ache and the lungs feel dry and hot. "It is no place." says Dr. Stephens, "for a white man's unprotected head. A cork helmet, or a green umbrella, or both, are necessary to his safety. It makes me shudder to think of the human suffering imDlied by ten years of labor here on. the part of 5,000 men. But only at the price of all this toll can stately vessels steam through the Culebra. The French Canal company has removed much earth here, but vastly more remains to be taken out. With the lights strung along the cutting, the men of the night shift would have by far the easier day's work, for then the terrible sun rays would be absent, and the coolef night wind would be blowing through the trench. Indeed, if but one shift of men were employed, he thinks it would be better, after the light plant was installed, to work them only by night and have them sleep in daytime. The Sanitary Problem. His account of the sanitary problem is even more Impressive: "The French exercised little or no sanitary control over their canal laborers. They built little villages of wood and galvanized iron for the men to live in, but in most cases provided neither water nor drains. If they fell 111 in camp and ? did not die at once, they were transported after a day or two to the hospitals at Colon or Panama. That was about as far as the French medical care or control extended from 1880 onward. As a result they lost a great number of employees?some say 50,000. The construction gangs were often crippled and ineffective. Excavators, locomotives and other machines stood idle for weeks, because the men or the foremen were ill or dead. The losses of time and money from this course were enormous. Work was stopped from time to time, and often did not begin again for a month, pay being ^ Jrawn all the while for the entire gang! c The direct loss from this cause alone 1 s believed to have exceeded seventy nilllon francs! The indirect loss from lelay and demoralization can never C )e determined. "Labor unions in the United States lave already debated the regulation of ii vages and working hours at Panama, li ind have announced an intention to n )rganize the laborers there to this end. n But no sensible person can spend an I lour in the heat of the Culebra cut t .vithout coming to the conclusion that 1 :his is not a white man's job. The * French Canal company is now paying t ts laborers J1.08 a day, Colombia sil- r irer, worth about 44 cents in United e States currency." Dr. Stephens says that It is an er- 1 ror to speak of any locality as in it- v self "unhealthful." If disease is pres- 1 ;nt it has been brought there' by the 3 uen or animals which have become in- a fected elsewhere. No locality breeds 1 new disease. He wants the government to establish a school of tropical iiseases at Colon. The greatest variety of clinical material would be abun3ant. Canal laborers arriving from various points in the tropics will afford excellent material for study, with the added advantages of observing the course of the diseases in a tropical climate. Dr. Stephens also favors a camp of ietentlon and observation for Incoming laborers. In no other way can disease be prevented from gaining access to the labor camps along the line of the canal. Nor when forwarded from the camp of observation to labor camps should the executive guardianship over the laborers cease or be relaxed for a moment. A single hole in one's mosquito net lets in the mosquito that will Inoculate him with yellow fever or malaria: so with a system of health protection for 20,000 laborers. At a single weak point of the system an epidemic may enter; the system must be precise, efficient at all points and constantly operative. If the best economic results are to be obtained the labor camps must be inclosecl, policed and regulated as if under military discipline. He thinks it would be found sxpedient to have a canteen at every 1 camp, where tobacco, malt beverages ' ind a limited quantity of distilled 11- 1 tjuors of standard quality could be * purchased by the laborers. 1 Good Words For the Chagres River. < This observer's account of the Cha- 1 erres river Is interesting. The whole 1 world has heard of the Chagres river. < but has heard no good of it. Indeed, * the English. French and Spanish lan- I ?uages have been ransacked for terms 1 with which to stigmatize it. It Is the ' 'torrential" Chagres, the "deadly" I Chagres, the "miasmatic" Chagres, the c 'uncontrollable, ungovernable" Chagres, * the "accursed" Chagres, "that infernal 2 river." It has even had a fever of ' lethal character named after it. ? "When the French Canal officials 1 wished to find a scapegoat," says Dr. j Stephens, "for their malfeasance in j spending, or stealing, J200.000.000, and c not digging a canal with it, they select- j ed the Chagres river and attributed j sverything bad to that. It washed back' all the earth which they dug out; It rendered a tide water canal lmpossible; it brought malaria and death to their laborers: in fine, they would have constructed the Panama canal by 1892 t but for that awful Chagres river! "I really expected to see a moral ^ monster of a river there. I was looking for something like the Styx, as described by the classic poets. It would not have surprised me greatly to see i stream of miasmatic, green slime, iiaunted by Chagres fever ghosts. Instead, what one sees is a pretty little ' river of azure water, purling gently over sandy bars?quite an ideal strearfi, ivith lovely gravels and pools beneath | srreen banks, the bare sight of which makes one think of his fish hook and ine. "But this was the dry season. I bejan making careful inquiries as to the wet season. Once, seventeen years ago, it did rise pretty high. At a place where the channel is much com- | pressed, at Las Cascades, it rose between thirty and forty feet that year for a few hours. I found that at home ?among its neighbors, so to speak? ' the Chagres bore a good enough repu- ^ tation as rivers go. In the matter of , floods the Chagres is no worse than the Big Sandy, the French Broad, or 1 the Androscoggin in our own country, c But for the Chagres an inter-oceanic ? :anal at Panama during the next quarter of a century would be a physical Impossibility. A tide-water canal at Panama is impossible, except at such :ost as to be practically useless to the American people. It is just here that the Chagres river comes in. By build- ^ Ing a dam across it and across the ca- ,ial at Bohio, near sea level, on the Atlantic side, an elevated Island lake may be formed across the highest portion of the Isthmus extending through :he Culebra cut. By using the Chajres to form this lake, more than fourfifths of the excavation necessary for i tide-water canal may be avoided. Were it not for the Chagres river this ake could not be formed. The volume iirVt!s>Vi flrtura la -hi fit flhftllf Sllf J L W UIC1 niliwu liViia iU ,/ xww ?? ficlent to All the lake and supply water for the locks. If it were much larger, t would give trouble; If less. It would >e Insufficient. "A ship canal, like that at Panama, -equires a vast amount of water for feeding the locks. Nothing less than i river of considerable size will suffice 'or the water supply. This much inathematized Chagres river is, there'ore the rieht thine in the right place. [t Is very fortunate for us that it is | here."?New York Evening Sun. Jest Saves a Leg.?It is seldom that r i hospital surgeon is placed at a loss o answer patients, but one of the best ? mown operators in this city was 0 ;ompletely taken aback recently, says it he Philadelphia Press. P The patient, with a leg so badly -y lurt that amputation had been decided o >n, had excited the interest of the sur- F teon because of the peculiarity of the ^ :omplaint. He brought a couple of lurglcal friends into the ward to see he case, and, as he approached the :ot" remarked: "Well, how are you today?" ^ Like a flash the patient answered: ^ "O, I'm flick abed," and the surgeon r| rowed that the knife should not be ised the next day, as intended. Best & if all he saved the merry young man's eg. GOLD NUGGET. >iscovered In New South Wales Holds ~ the Record With 640 Pounds. "I have Just been reading an account n a newspaper about the finding of a / arge nugget of gold In an Australian nine, and the writer calls it the largest lugget of this metal ever unearthed. Q t weighed 152 pounds and sold for a rifle over 535,000, and this shows that he writer was mistaken In his asserlon, for many larger nuggets have Cnofoi'a PaapVfl tpllq J ICCI1 1UUIIU, lUt. VIUOVUTW ? ne. "The largest nugget ever dlscovred was at the Byer & Holt, claim, Till End, New South Wales, on May ? 0, 18T2. That single piece of gold velghed 640 pounds and was about 4 ( nches thick, 4 feet 9 Inches long and ! feet 2 Inches wide. Its total value, tfter the baser metals had been exracted, was $148,000, and It still holds he world's record, unless the Informalon I have on the subject Is deficient, uid I don't think it is. As a rule, arge gold nuggets are very, very sellom found, and generally about one is { ill chat has ever figured in the history if a single mine, with the exception of he Canadian Gully, Ballarat. This nine was started in a most unsatisfacory-appearing locality, and after vorking down a few feet the prospect- ' >rs themselves were beginning to grow 1 lomewhat dubious, when, on Jan. 20, -* 1- - ?...ki/tU .000, lney Siruc-H. a puunci Hum nuivu hey took a nugget weighing 93 pounds hat brought the finders <22,350. The :amp went crazy with excitement, but wo days later, at an additional depth >f 7 feet, another nugget weighing 84 pounds, and selling later for <20,325, vas taken out. This established a lew record, and the mine was surounded after that for days by a ;rowd of interested spectators, hoping Lgainst hope that another rich discov>ry would result from the workings, tnd for once anticipation was not dlsippointed, for on Jan. 31, L eleven lays after the first nugget had been inearthed, a third was brought to ight, that weighed 134 pounds, and told for <32,360. One may readily picure the mental condition of those niners after the third rich prize, and he consequent reflected excitement In he camp. Australia, you know, has ilways been the land of nuggets. The Dates & Nelson find at Donnelly, In 1880, was extracted from the roots of i tree which the prospectors had deeded to remove only because it inter- . 'ered with some work they contemplated on the surface, and not because hey thought there was any gold beleath it. This nugget weighed 189 f Hounds and a bank bought It for J50, 00. Another almost accidental find i vas the 'Welcome Stranger,' taken from I i shaft at Bakery Hill, June 9, 1858. j The prospectors were just about to j ibandon their mine In disgust, for the i vorking _had been productive of little ^ rold, when their picks unearthed this I ump of gold, which weighed 184 I x>unds, and sold for 844,360. With I inly two exceptions, all of these nug- I jets were larger than the one about ^ vhich I spoke first."?St. Xxmis Globe- ^ Democrat. J ' r tar There is no comfort where no comtarlson is. p We Are Selling Austin, Nichols & Co.'s i i i Morningj Glory ] ^ i Roasted Cottee j The Housekeepers Stand- i ard). ' t This is the choicest roasted coffee ve have ever handled. It is )lended and roasted just right, i Put up in four pound airtight tin j iartons at 25c per pound?$1.00 1 )er can. Its aroma is delicious. J 1 RIDDLE & CARROLL. s I We have a carload of extra f :hoice feed Corn. Right price. f GINNING 1 i I ^ * a m w* n ** I i?iAV/mix & B-E-S-T M-U-R-R-A-Y t Made by Liddell J Not only op witH th? timoSt bot many year) h?ad, if other syatama are modern. QUALITY C and?< QUANTITY c Gat Particular* from o G-I-B-B-E-S I COLUMBIA. S. C. L Please menllon this paper. , * ti FOR SALE. {.| rHE CAVENY PLACE, on Bui- t, lock's creek, near Beersheba hurch, contains 118 ACRES, including lenty of bottom and about 25 acres a f wood land. The plantation Is well ^ nproved with good buildings, and has ^ lenty of water. Land strong and pro- r( uctive. Rents for over 10 per cent. Sfill sell for $10 per acre CASH, or n satisfactory terms to right parties, 'or further Information apply to W. r . CAVENY, Rock Hill, S. C., or to 1. C. CAVENY. t May 3 t 3mos. THE "WE FIX IT" SHOP. ?, 117 E are repairing, repainting, and v if overhauling Buggies, and we are p oing this work at prices that are Ight. You'll find us in the rear of Riddle "I ; Carroll's. A Yours for business, oi R. E. MONTGOMERY, Proprietor. tl professional djards. J. S. BRICE, \TTORNEY AT LAW, Office Opposite Court House. Prompt attention to all legal business f whatever nature. GEO. W. S HART, \TTORNEY AT LAW, YORKVILLE, S. C. LAW RANGE. 'Phone Office No. 3.8 ). E. Finley. Marion B. Jennings. FINLEY & JENNINGS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office in WILSON BUILDING, oppoeite :ourt Houae. Telephone No xs6 A. Y. CART WRIGHT, ^iiDP.crkM n cm Tier JWIIUL.V 11 L/L.I1 IW I | YORKVILLE, S. C. AGfife OFFICE H0UR8: g am to i p. m;a p m, to 5 p. m. Office in upstairs rooms of Cartwright building, opposite Telegraph and Exjress Offices. PHOTOGRAPHY . IB AMT ART \ ND it takes an artist to be a photJLtographer. One who is not an artsi doesn't stand much of a chance of naklng a success at photography. 1 lave given years of study to this esjecial line and I can say with pride hat my work will compare favorably vlth that of any photographer in this tection. The best and most "perfect photographs are the result of experience ind not experiments. I do all of my ieveloplng, retouching . and finishing, hereby obtaining the best possible relults. is Far As Prices Vre concerned, you need not worry rourself along that score. I know that ny prices are reasonable and you will igree with me when I tell you what " hey are. I am also prepared to devel>p and print pictures taken with pocket cameras. If you have a Kodak or . /ive or any other camera, and for any eason you can't develop and print row pictures, bring them to me at my rallery on West Liberty street. J. R. SCHORB. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SCHEDULES. *Jo. 114, Southbound?Blackaburg to Charlestoh?Daily. jV. Blacksburg 8.45a.m. jV. Smyrna 9.10a.m. jV. Hickory Grove 9.20a.m. ^v. Sharon 9.31a.m. j\\ Torkville 9.45a.im. jV. Tirzah 9.67a.m. Lr. Rock Hill 10.16a.m. jV. Rock Hill 10.30a.m. \jV. Catawba Junction ....... 10.65a.m. jV. Lancaster 11.40a.m. j\. Camden 2p.m. i.r. Klngville 3.46p.m. \.r. Columbia 9.25p.m. Vr. Charleston 7.45p.m. No. 114 leaves Blacksburg after arival of No. 36 from Atlanta. 4o. 113, Northbound?Charleston to Blacksburg?Daily. >. Charleston 7.30a.m. ..v. Columbia 7.20a.m. jV. Klngville 11.00a.m. ..v. Camden ' 12.35p.m. jV. Lancaster 2.23p.m. _,v. Catawba Junction 2.45p.m. >. Rock Hill 3.06p.m. >. Tirzah 3.25p.m. ^v. Torkville 3.37p.m. jv. Sharon 3.04p.m. l,v. Hickory Grove 4.06p.m. liv. Smyrna 4.16p.m. Vr. Blacksburg 4.86p.m. No. 113 connects at Blacksburg with Trains Nos. 12, 38 and 40 for Charlotte ind Washington. 4o. 135, Northbound?Rock Hill to Marion?Daily. liV. Rock Hill 6.00a.m. jV. Tlrzah 6.19a.m. jV. Yorkvllle 6.30a.m. L.V. Sharon 6.45am. -v. Hickory Grove 7.00a.m. Vr. Blacksburg 7.40a.m. ..v. Blacksburg 8.10a.m. Vr. Marlon 10.46a.m. No. 135 connects at Blaoksburg with rains both north and south. 4o. 136, Southbound?Marion to Rock Hill?Daily. jV. Marion 6.25p.m. .<v. Blacksburg 8.46p.m. jV. Smyrna 9.10p.m. jV. Hickory Grove 9.23pm. j\. Sharon 9.38pm. j\. Yorkvllle 9.54p.m. >. Tlrzah 10.10p.m. Vr. Rock Hill 10.30p.m. No. 136. leaves Blacksburg, southlound, after arrival of No. 40 from At"-J AAMMAnfa af P nrU Mall \i/ith Jo. 29 for Columbia. For further information apply to any tgent of the Southern Railway, or to IOBT. W. HUNT, Division Passenger Lgent, Charleston, or to BROOKS dORGAN, A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. :heap excursion rates VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY. The Southern Railway announces he following very low Excursion ates to the following points named elow: KNOXVILLE, TENN., and return, ccount "Summer School" from June 8, to August 5th, 1904, at the very )w rate of one first-class fare plus 25 ents. DETROIT, MICH., and return, ac 1. ?.r? Va..?? Dnrtnlti'o ITninn OUril Dajnun x uuuft * f America. International Convention," uly 13 to 15, 1904, at the very low ate of one first-class fare plus 50 ents. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., and reurn, account "Imperial Council Anient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mys1c Shrine." July 13 to 15, 1904, at the ate of one first class fare plus $1.00 ar the round trip. MONTEAGLE, TENN., and return, ccount "Woman's Congress," from .ugust 1st to 7th, 1904, at rate of one rst-class fare plus 25 cents for the aund trip. , MONTEAGLE, TENN., and return, ccount "Monteagle Sunday School istitute," from August 15 to 30, 1904, t the very low rate of one flrst-cla ?s ire plus 25 cents for the round trip. MONTEAGLE, TENN., and return, ccount "Monteagle Bible School," om July 4 to August 4th, 1904, at the ery low rate of one first-class fare lus 25 cents for the round trip. ATHENS, GA., and return, account Summer School" from July 5, to ugust 6, 1904, at the very low rate of ne first-class fare plus 25 cents for le round trip.