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EARTHL Solomon had glory He isn't living now; There's wonder in his story He isn't living now; Caesar mounted pretty high, Charlemazne was proud and grCa; charles of England, my, 0. my! He moved at a rapid rate! There was French King Louis. too, Who had -ething much to (o Save be gay the seasons through .They'rc not living now. IRST -AD TO Sy CARROLL W S an ornament, the big, im pressive clock above the city hali was fully worth its original heavy cost. As a timepiece, however, it was thoroughly exasperat ing; in spite of all efforts to retard its overhasty motions, it persisted in keep ing ahead of time. The butcher stand ng near the doorway of the little shop occupying the opposite corner always replied when anxious strangers, hurry ing trainward, paused to ask if the clock was right: "Mine gracious, no! Dot clock vas more as two year fast alretty." Delia Murchison was precisely like the clock, always ahead of time. If she were invited for 3 o'clock tea, she always arrived at half-past 2. If she had an appointment to keep she was invariably to be found restlessly keep ing it at least twenty minutes too soon. She was small, thin, dark and eager, a vividly enthusiastic young person of fifteen; and just as it was impossible :to retard the city hall clock sufficiently, so was it futile to attempt to make an easy, slow-going personage of Delia. In school she was nearly two years ahead of the girls with whom she had graduated from the eighth grade. In the matter of elective studies she had been. during her freshman year, a de cidedly grasping student. As a sopho more, she had been even more enter prising; consequently, at the beginning of her career as a junior, she found that there were no more elective stud ies left to take. ' She was eager, indeed, to add the regular senior course to what she was already carrying, to pile physics and trigonometry upon geometry, and to cram two years of Latin into one; but o this heroic proposition both teachers and parents very wisely said no. But this unprecedented forwardness in the matter of learning left Delia with much unoccupied time on her hands and everybody knorts what happens where there are idle hands. Before her junior year Delia had been too busy to get into mischief; but now, with so little real work to do, she became a disturbing element in what had hitherto been a strikingly quiet, well-behaved school. Just before Delia h ad become a sophomore a new super intendent of public schools was ap pointed. The first thing Mr. Graham did on taking possession of the schools was to make an appeal to the school board in favor of football for the boys and basketball for the girls. The members of the school board, however, did not take to this innova tion. One declared that he had not played football himself. and that he did not see any good reason why his grandchildren should. The second said that he once possessed a youthful rela tive who had lost a good front tooth playing football, and that he considered piling wood a much safer exercise for his own stalwart sons. The third, an -unathletic bachelor of seventy-two, sur prised everybody by siding with the new superintendent, and was very much in favor of both games; but he wias only one against two, and at first it looked as if the school would have to get a long without either of the pop iilar sports. But one of the obdurate board mem 'bers had two sons with athletic tenden cies, and the other had four equally athletic grandchildren. All these en thusIastic young persons labored stren uously to overcome prejudices; and soon, so far as football was concerned, the board weakened. When it came to basketball, however, there were stronger prejudices to over Icome. At last the board gr-udgingly Iconsented to rent a suitable room for one month. and to endure the game for that brief period of time on trial. If all went well, the game should stay; but if it killed Cissy Laurence, as Mrs. Laurence was certain it-would, or ~f it interfered with Doris Green's "Caesar," or Anastasia Mallett's asthma, or Myrtle Howard's ancient history. or Mary Clark's heart the .game shotud ibe banished. Of course the girls were overjioyed. Nothing serious happened to any of them during the tirst month, the ball iwas engaged for another four weeks. an:d it begar. to look very much as if the game had come to stay. Mr. Miller was a stern disciplina-lan. During schooi hours, whenever he was in charge of the assemnbly room. Delia 'bhaved like a model pupil. In No ;-cmber. however, lie was called away s!uddenly by mt':ess in hs family, and upon ilttle Mr. Peasley, the scieuce teacher. devolved the task of keeping sixty-ineC restless young persons in -order. Now Mr. Peasley knew all about bugs and blossoms and queer, evil smir i:g acids; but he had never learned how to heep even a small class -of siz or eight pupils from wriggling. ,4wisting anid whispering. Thie task of looking after slxy-nine, with Delia -nearly a year ahead of her studies, and consequently dangerously idle, was ut terly beyond him. With all her lessons prepared for the coming tive days, Delia was in her most mischievous and ieast a'imira'jle frame of mind that weel:; ard owing to Mr. Miller's absence, the remaining sixty-eight, too. wvere in a ipleasar.t. relaxed and receptive mooed, Never had they been nmore- willing ;'- foillow Delia's reckless lead. Ne-ar-sight.l Mr. Peasley, poor man: eeul not see the blackboard at the back of the room; so whe-n Delia drew an ahiuring caricature of Robini Hadley, suffering with toothache, inetend of the geometrical figure she was sup. nnedl ten a wing, and then no1nted V GLORY. There is much regretting By men who live to-day; Thev want more than they'rc getting, The men who live to-day; They look across the pas: and mourn, They bend to labor an i are sad: T They wish that they might have been born To things such as some -ncienti had; But better far, it seems to me, Than having immortality And being dust, it is to be Up and 'round to-day. L-S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Ilerald. ThE INJURED K - @~a - ATSON RANkIN. with her ferule to one after another of Robin's graphically pictured features t as she gravely explained the diagram that was supposed to be there and was not, Mr. P asley could not understand why everyDody laughed. He even mild ly rebuked the giggling sixty-eight for t embarrassing Delia during her recita tion. After that Delia seemed to take de- C light in playing endless silly tricks on the unsuspecting little teacher. "Girls," said she, one afternoon, as they were flocking down the steps, "let's dress up in some ridiculous way to-morrow, just for fun. Let's all curl our hair in Kittie Blaine curls-" "We did that Monday," objected Cissy Laurence. "and I couldn't sleep a all night with my hair done up in rags." "Yes," sympathized Anastasia Mal lett. "It was just like trying to slum- y ber on a bushel of door-knobs. No e more curls for this damsel." E "Well," agreed Delia, "it was a nuis- - ance, and he didn't notice the curls, s anyway. I'll try to think of something i really startling by the time basketball's over to-night." That Delia had succeeded was evi- a dent the next morning. Cissy, leaning b on a crutch, limped slowly down the t aisle to her seat near the window. An- r astasia wore her r'ght arm in a sling, and, not being ambidextrous, made r fearful and wonderful work of her i written exercis. Doris had each sep- t arate finger swathed in a neat, glar ingly white bandage. Blooming Rose b Mitchel was powdered to a ghastly b pallor with corn starch and green a chalk- b Large :trips of black court plaster were cris-crossed on Laura Dale's flaw- f less pink cheek. Adelaide Brown, the f doctor's daughter, wore a shade over one eye, and was redolent of lodoform. f Ada Gray carried a large bottle labeled , painkiller, and a tablespoon. From time to time she sighed deeply, and sadly took carefully measured doses., o Lucy Mather's cheek bulged alarming ly, because ^f the huge crab-apple inv her 'mouth. Mary Clark, who painted ~ in water colors, had decorated herself and several of her classmates with L astonishingly lifelike cuts, scratches, bruises and black eyes. Delia herself might have been the sole survivor of a particularly disas trous football game. She had pasted j black paper over two of 'her rather prominent front teeth, and wore oneC eyelid painfully glued down flat under a circle of flesh-colored court plaster. Both elbows were apparently out of joint, and her limp was ever more dis tressing than Cissy Laurence's. The naughty girls had mumbled. "Basketball last night," when Mr. Peasley, at first mildly astonished, had a:& cqch apparently suffering young woman in turn if she -had met with f some accident. Now the gentle science teacher was I near~-sighted and no disciplinarian, but r he was not stupid. The bruises and C bandages were all exceedingly lifelik~e, a but the crop was far too large to C have grown in a single night. It did I not seem possible even to unobserving I Mr. Peasley that so many players could I have been injured in a single, well- t conducted game of basketball. I A little later, when he read- a note handed to him by a pupil from one of the lower grades, his eyes began to c twinkle behind his spectacles, quite as I if he had stumbled upon some huge I joke. ti At half-past nine, very much to the i horror of about thirty-five temporarily is disfigured girls, two members of the I school board, proudly escorting a dis- a tnguished out-of-town member of the e legislature, marched into the assembly f; room. Mr. Peasley, tiot dreaming that i the visitors would take this little joke t seriously, apologized humorously for the battered appearance of his -upils. '-You see,"' he e-:plained, without for t: a moment suspecting that he was seal-n ing the fate of the basketball teams, r "an unusually vigorous game of basket- I ball has left all my young ladies a little g the worse for wear." it Only a few of the surprised culprits t: had been able to squirm hastily out h of their too-wcll-secured bandages. u The visitors had just left the sunshine e for a schoolroom with half-lowered ii shades, and they did not suspect Mr. c Peasley of levity. They remained only r a few moments. After leaving the building they discussed, in all serious ness, the game of baskettball and its 1 effect on schoolgirls. "It must be a fearfully brutal game," o commented the out-of-town visitor. "I haven't seen it played, but I've heard f about it."( "Yes." agreed Mr. Black. of the f school board. "it's worse than I ever f dreamed it could be. From the looks a of that Ciark girl's face, I should say t she was pounded black anud blue froma c head te heels." "The-'ve orly been at it, too." added a Mr. Gormr~u. "for seven week's, anld there wasn't a girl there who looked real sound. That Mitchell girl used t have the reddest cheeks in town." "I noticed." said the distinguished C visitor, "that several had bandages over their eyes. Any game that en dangers ;be eyesight ought certainly to be prohit'ited." - '-When I s -e Mr. Graham this after noon." promis .d Mr. Gorman, "I shall tell him that 'this board will tolerate no more games Of( basketball!", Thhi. happened \on Thursday. By Muday mo'rning tme girls, at first rather ashamed of the" childish esca- - pade. had almost forgot-en it; but re membrance returned very forcibly .anwle~ r.(rahanm annomucod. -int be- 1: lore noon, that there would be no more >asketball. Afterward an excited group clustered ound Delia on the school steps. "It's all your fault:" accused Cissy aurence, somewhat unjustly. "We'd tever have thought of such foolishness f you hadn't put us up to it!" "No," said Doris. "it was Mr. Peas eys little speech that finished us. I on't think for a minute that he real zed what he was doing for us, but vhen he said what he dlid I said to my elf, 'There: That settles our basket all!'" "Couldn't we explain to Mr. Gra am?" ventured Anastasia, doubtfully. Or t Mr. Miller, when he gets back?" "Perhaps you'd like to undertake it," fred'l Mary, with mild. sarcasm. "Mr. rabam's just the kina of a man one ikes to explain a thing like. that to, t tow isn't he? And fancy telling Mr. filler!" "Yes," agreed Ada. "I can just see ayself explaining that bottle of imi ation painkiller!" "And that awfully geneuine iodo orm," said Adelaide. "And those itndages," added Doris. t I guess the wisest thing we can do is > hope fervently that Mr. Grahaam will ( ever learn the .horrible truth. We've t >st our basketball, and that's the end f it." It was not the end of it, however. 'he girls missed the sport. and could t ot refrain from eying Delia reproach- I ullyL whenever the game was men- b ioned. Sometimes, indeed, their ex- r essively frank young tongues aided eir reproachful eyes. Then, ,too, )elia had an accusing conscience, and Itogether, the winter threatened to be n unhappy ono. By the middle of De- s ember Delia hated the very name'of 1 asketball. 0 One Saturday morning, when Delia g ras telephoning, the lines were b rossed, and she overheard Mr. Gor ian's rather unusual voice asking, Is that you, Black? There'll be a hool board meeting at my office at 1 o'clock. Yes, to-day." Delia, her small, dark countenance 1 light with sudden hope, realized that a glorious opportunity was waiting to e seized. It seemed fairly rroviden- c ial. The girls had not thought of ap eaing to the board. Mr. Gorman's office was just a little nced-off corner of his dry goods store. )elia appeared therein at half-past 10,- o find the place vacant. F Shortly after the appointed hour. C owever, the school board arrived in a 1 ody. Delia, very crimson with guilt nd speaking' with almost feverish aste, made full confession. The elderly school board tried m:an- 9 ally to maintain its dignity--and p ailed. Delia left its members with c irthful tears standing in their eyes, n or, some fifty years previously, they, i. o, had played pranks. h The board had made no promises, but )elia felt distinctly hopeful. She was bliged, however, to live in suspense ntil 2 o'clock the following Monday, 1.en Mr. Miller, his grave eyes fixed ' uizzically on Delia, who was turning 0 ed and white by turns, rose, cleared F is throat and prepared to make a little Ja peech. "Young ladies," he announced, "all b 'ho consider it safe to play basketball lay do so after school this afternoon t the usual place. The board has rihdrawn its objections."-Youth 's o..aanion.a a Th new petroleum fuel reported rom Switzerland is in the form of riquettes containing four parts of etroleum to one part of secret mate ial. At fifteen cents per gallon fore il, the cost of each briquette was bout two and one-fourth cents, but a na large, scale would be much less. 7 'our briquettes under a boiler having a c; eating surface of 460 square feet ig- 0 ed the coal in fifteen minutes, the o riquettes themselves burning forty- X minutes. The rare peculiarity known as haem phily, or "bleedin.g sickness," has een brought to notice anew by Dr. oehme, a German physician. It con- 1 nues for generation after generation b 1 certaIn families, and is character- t med by an extraordinary tendency to o emorrhage, making the extraction of a tooth a dangerous operation, while tl yen a pin-prick may lead to severe or t< ital bleeding. The cause seems to ex at in an unexplained failure cf the V ood to coagulate like normal blood. The loss of energy in generatinlg elee L'icity and converting it into heat aakes electrIc heating very costly for iost purposes. In. eleerric cooking, ta owever, this waste is offset by a s reatly increased efficiency of applica on. A recent determination shows^ bat only two per' cent. of the total S eat of the ordinary kitchen range is a sed for cooking the food, twelve per t: nt. being wasted in obtaining a glow- is 1g fire, seventy per cent. going u~p the s< bimney :ind sixteen per cent. being s adiated into the room. p The crious dread of cats thait has I en stdied for three years by Dr.r . Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphini. may P pen up a wide' field for investig~ationl. nn advertisement brought 159 replies rom different countries-ncluding rmany, Egypt and India-and about wo-thirds of thenm mentionled cases ofe ear of cats. the others referring to thma from eats. This astbma, due ~ >odors. mnay be excite'd by the pres- a nee of horses, dogs, ents or sheep, or vn of ross apples, oranges or ban lentife'1 by 'Tat too Mtarks. A deserter from the British army V ras identified recently by the fo'low- t ig tattoo marks upon him: A cross a the left forearm, with the words In loving memory": a .iockey with wo flags, Buffalo Bill, a heart on ther ck of the left hand, a horseshoe withr rossed whips, a cross with the figure f a soldier leaning on it, a pierced ~ eart, a heart on the right forearm., heart with clasped hands, a soldier S n a irl.d The armies of continental count-'ies ~ r e the first branch of the service. e The British Empire is sixteen times a.ge. than n1l the Frenr-h dominions. VESSELS SlOT INTO imerican Fishermen Trespassing in Cannadian Territory lIT TIIRTEEN TiMES IN FLEEING uerican Fishing Steamer Has Ex citing Experience With Cannadian Cruiser Vigilant. Erie, Pa., Special.-The fourth of he fish tug incidents of the past week ook place in mid-Lake Erie when the anadian cruiser Vigilant riddled the ig steam tug Harry G. Barnhart witb mall shells from the rifle on the pa- S rol boat. Captain Nick Fassel, of the t ug, admitted after he escaped that the c igilant could have sent her to the bot- E om if Captain Dunn had so desired. t They ran more than eight miles un er full head before they crossed the oundary line and escaped from the anadians. More than thirty shots truck the vessel, and of those 15 of 0 he small shells landed with telling ef- I ect on the upper parts, so that the I oat careened to one side with the tass of wreckage when she came into rt. Having been used formerly for u pleasure steamer, the :Barnhurst is a f a large size And well 'fitted with t team equipment. The fireman, Mag us Johnson, faited in thre hold .from ver-exertion is keeping the steamer oing ahead. He was reported killed, ut revived after reaching shore. The shermen were cut in the fact by plinters shot away by the bullets. P The Barnhurst, according to Captain L 'assel, was about five miles over the e, ne drawing nets when the Vigilant t ppeared. The other Erie tugs, the r ma, Valiant and the Boyd, were I loser to the line and ran away when b te chase started. Captain Dunn cr- i ered the Barnhurst to stop, but *a :ead of doing so, Captain Fassel put n full steam and started for the line. [e took a southwesterly direction and >uld not be headed off by the Vigi- h nt. 0 It has become quite the custom for v e Erie fishermen .o croE*s the line re ardless of strict ordlers from the com- ' C anies emplev'T.g them, a ad having ex iting brushes with the Vigilance. They b ever think of surrende:- when there a chance to run away. The Barn urst lost a large quantity of nets. Taft Leaves For Eome. a Yokahama, By Cable--Secretary of e 'ar Taft and party sailed at 3:00 m clock Sunday afternoon for San h~ rancisco on the steamer Korea, amid c panese enthusiasm. A reception s as given at the Americar; consulate I Japanese merchants. 'Before sail g Secretary Taft said he thought ae reports of the Japanese anti-peace monstrations had been greatly ex- a ggerated in America. He and his arty had traveled all through Japan3 rid had found no trace of any anti )reign feeling. While prominent Am- n 'icans had been involved in a Tokio y mob, he thought it was because the h .merican party was caught in the p iob, and not because they were Amer. e :ans. Other churches besides Amer- s an churches had been burned. here was several special reasons in ach case, but no general anti-foreigi ~ eling was responsible.a Secretary Taft said that he had ex- b mined the Chinese boycott closely. ~ he Chinese, he said, wanted Ameni ~ an goods, and having already lost $15,-' a 00,000 by the boycott, were finding it that they were cutting off their. oses to spite their faces. 11 Miss Alice Roosevelt will return a me on the steamer Siberia. o The local situation continues quiet. Reco'rd Entry Closed. Lexington, Ky., Special.-The entry c St which has closed, was received ~ r the Kentucky Breeders' Associa- E on for the big Lexinagton meeting October 3 to 14, includes 374r orses for 20 purses. These added to e iose kept in the stakes, brings, the tl )tal entry up to 628 horses and breaks C ie record for entries on American otting tracks, established by the exington Association in 1898 by near 700 animals. All Now Qu-iet. Christiana, By Cable.--Peace be veen Sweden and Norway being as- C red, a quiet feeling prevails here. s ews firom Karlstadt, however, is r .ill awaited with the keenest interest, e d there is anxiety to learn the -de- S ils Of the compromise. The press I unanimous in hoping for a speedy ttlement of the. questions. There is me misgivings entertained that ace may have been bought too ear ,but al1 the newspapers express ief that peace has been secured,. ooviding it is on an enduring basis. c Fatal Boiler :Explosion. Piconning, Mich.. Special.-By the plosion of an alleged defective boil in the stave mill of 2dward Jen igs here five men were killed and S 10 injured. Thirty men were at work in the mill hen the explosion occurred. The con sion was so terrible that windows ere broken a miie from the mill. Thie S >Iies of the five men killed were bad- C mnanled. None of the~ injured are p ought to be dangerously' injureid- c Prominent Man Dead-. Lynciburg. Va.. Special -N. R. Bow- G an. president of the Liy:achburg com-b on council, and a prominent business d an, died Sunday morning. anfter a a ng illness. He was a Confederate ' >dier and for some time was presi- I ent of the Lynchburg tobacco trade. I tt his death he was interested in a eal estate company. He was 69 years Id and is survivder by his widow and even children, all of whom reside here t xept the eldest, Walker Bowman, of d TLImLE NEW8Of INTERU NoLes of Southern Cotton Mms ai Other Manufacturing Enterprises Athens, Ga. The Aberdeen Linen Mill iow in operation. For the pa everal' months this mill h; >een under construction. Asbury J Eodgson is President, W. T. Bry, s secretary and among the mo rominent stockholders are J. Y. Ca thers and Billups Phinizy. Gener; anager Tibbetts is also a leadin tockholder. The looms are now b< ng operated for the first time an ome of the finished product has bee urned out. The Aberdeen Mill : me of the few of its kind in tl ,outh. Its product will be entire] oweling. Nothing else will be mai actured there, and already the d4 and for the product of this estal shment is heavy. A splendid grad f toweling will be maufactured. Th iew mill building is large and cor nodious. The capacity of the Southern Mar facturing Company will be double t an e'arly date. This has been cor emplated for some time and the in )rovement simply awaited the con letion of the Aberdeen Linen Mil 'hat has been accomplished and th oubling of the equipment of th outhern Manufacturing Company lant will now be taken in hand. Ar ther large mill building will be erect d, adjoining the present plant, an he machinery for this building is a eady. The company has recentl uilt a large number of operatives ouses and has others yet to be buil n the vicinity of this plant a regula ttle town has sprung up. Atlanta, Ga. William F. Harbour, of Atlant: as invented and received letter f patent upon a cotton hai ester which lie feels ennfident wil )lve the cotton picking problem. Ac >rding to the patent rights issue, > ir. Harbour, his machine is d( !ribed as improved pneumatic cotto: arvester. Mr. Harbour's cotton har ester works on the principle of pneu atic suction, and is so constructe< nd adjusted as to separate the lin >tton from the leaves and other fox in matter which may be gathere, ith it. The machine is made to b auled across a cotton field by a pai mules, and can be operated, it ated, by one man and a boy. Mi larbour states that his machine wil ick all the cotton open in a five-acr eld in one day. A demonstration o ese facts will prove Mr. Harbour' anchine to the South what the reape d binder is to the great grain grov' g sections of the west. The prine~ Le of Mr. Harbour 's machine is vast e different from that of the othe xachines which have been constructe ith the same end in view, but whic ave practically proven failures. Th rinciple of other machines has bee: ither rotating fingers or revolvin tems. Winston-Salem-The Pioneer Mar acturing Co. with $25,000 authorize d $4,950 paid in capital stock ha een granted a charter. The incox orators are: L. W. Brown and Chax s C. Vaughan, of Winston-Salen d Albert M. Brown of St. Louis o. Its objects arc the manufactur ig and sale of cotton, woolen, sill nd linen garments, and the carryin n of a tailoring establishment and aindry. Salisbury-It is planned to build tton factory of large size in con ection with the development of 3,00 orse power in the Southern Yadkii iver below here. The water powe lectric project is being furthered b; re Southern Yadkin Developmen o., which is composed of Philade] hia and North Carolina capitalists andy & Terrell, of Greensboro. 3 ., are consulting engineers. Textile Notes. Work is gzoing on with a rush at th pray Mill, at Gastonia. The one tory portion is now ready for th of. The big electrie generator ha me and the machinists are now in talling it. This will be somethin; ew in mill mechanics. It will b riven by a direct connected stear rhaie engine making thousands o ~volutions a minute. A number o usy. They are finishing some good xade by northern mills, aiid als, loth made in Georgia; the latter fo ipment to China and South Ameri a. J. W. Lidau is agent. The Chathiam Cotton Oil Mill Conm mny, at Pittsboro, taking advantag the summer idleness, is overhaulinj s mill and making several addition ,thc mxachiinery. The plant is as ..cellent one, built by the D. A ompkins Co(mpan~y. of Charlot te. anx 'ill be ready to start theC coming sea > on a large scale. as soon as thi tton seed begin to come in. Th rospets are for a steady run at ful apacity. Fire broke out last week in the dr; ouse of the Minola Cotton Mills, a ibsonville. 12 miles cast of Greens oro and destroyed several thxousani ollars worth of property. The mill re equipped with a splendid watc1 orks olant and this saved the coir lte destruction of the enterprise. rge quantity of cotton was rumne nd the building and machinery greal ' damaged before the flames could b It is rumored that the Eldorado Col >n Mills at Millegeville, N. C., wil o.ub..ei capay which is 5.00 ANTS TMAT FARM; Dig a Series of U ndergrolad C.ambers in Which to Store Grain. Briefly, the interior formicary was d found to be a series of large chambers arranged in irregular stories like the Roman catacombs, and connected at many points by tubular galleries lead ing to the central gate. Some of these caves were used as nurseries for eggs, s larvae and antlings: some were occu t pied by the winged queenlings and s males, and by the fertile queens. But many were granaries. Nearest the top were unhusked seeds, such as the ants had been seen gather t ing. Farther down were storero"is of naked seeds, and these were Identi fied as ant-rice, needle grass, buffalo grass and various oily seeds or nuts, g such as had been taken from the work ers in the field, and whose shells had d been found in the kitchen midden. The demonstration was complete, as far as field observation could go. s Pogonomyrmex barbatus is a true har e vester, a veritable "Agricultural ant!" The excavation was necessarily Y slow, since the purpose was to study - the interior architecture and collect material. This required to be done piecemeal and most carefully. constant ly guarding against the falling in of e the soil. Only a few feet In depth C were, therefore, accomplished by a - deep cutting, the galleries and cham bers were traced to a depth of fifteen feet. One may imagine the enormous work involved in carrying the formi cary to sudh a depth, or even much l less. beneath .the space covered by a circle ten or twelve feet in diameter. The strain of such use upon the ants' working tools-the mandibles-must be - great. How does it affect them? An . interesting fact developed from exam inations of the mandibles of many specimens.' The notmal jaw has well defined teeth, sharp and hard. The s jaws of workers showed all stages of abrasion, from a poiPtless long tooth to absolute toothlesshess.-H. C. Mc Cook, in Harper's Magazine. - WORDS OF WISDOMW The truly sublime is tlways easy, and always natural.-Burke. r The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.-Bossuet. He who speaks well.of others speaks well of himself.-General Phil Sheri dan. True religion is a close personal friendship with the Lord Jesus. - A. Murray. 1 In the supremacy of self-control con sists one of the perfections of the ideal man.-Herbert Spencer. Let us not live fretful- lives. God will never stretch the line of our duty beyond the measure of our strength. Life is springtime, and the gather Ing years are lengthening days, call ing to constant endeavor.-Rev W. D. Williams. I Duty comes to us as something hard, Sand we shrink from It. No one is a large man It hie does not feel that his Sduty is larger than himself.-Dr. Alex ander McKenzie. 1 If only that we might realize that the good God loves us more than we flove Him-more than .we love our selv-es!--Joseph Roux. - r The c'hinese Coolie. Lieutenant-Colonel Mainfield, of the British army, writes: "My dmi ration for the Chinese coolid is un bounded; there is no man in the world who does the same patient, laborious work so cheerfully. Farther on, when we came to the mountainous .water shed country, where only load backs are possible, I became still more con firmed in this opinion. Often after a long and .weary day 'with the sur veyors, in the course of which .we would have climbed up from 5000 to 8 000 feet, and made several such as cents and descents, having, perhaps, been on the move from 5 in the morn ing until dusk, we -would eome in, Prather inclined to pat ourselves on the back at the thought of what a hard day's work we had successfully ac complished, only to find that the Chii nese coolies had made as good time, each man having covered nearly as much ground with a load of 100 pounds on his back. This done on a few bowls of rice and bean curd, for a wage of less than ninepence (18 cents). a"Then, on their arrival, one might - have thought that the . coolies would have been glad to rest; but If, as was often the case where .accommodation was limited, I slept In the same house, I found to my annoyance that to re tire to bed was far from their thoughts and that my sleep was often disturbed Dy the noise they made as they sat up gambling long past midnight and yet they would be again on the road before G in the morning, having risen to make up their loads and get their food cooked before 6 o'clock."-Chicago News. - Style in 'Whiskers. The most remarkable whisker nov e Ity is to be found in France. French men for the last six months have been wearing box beards. A box beard is Sas square as a piece of carpentry, nine Sinches long, five inches wide, two inches deep, every corner sharp and L'true and all the' surfaces, upper and under and side, smoothed as if with a plane. The box beard is neat and queer. It was introduced by the King -of the Belgians. The English have a new mustache the butterfly. The butterfly is not more than two inches long. It is just a feath ery little thing under the nose, with ends .turning upward and inward. It has been adoptcd by all the young In, Italy the patch is being worn. The Italian has his chin shaved smooth xcept for a tiny circular patch the size of a shirt stud, and in this patch he growvs a little tuft a half inch long. It is as though the Italian has a mole there, but he has no mole really. The patch is just his coquetry.-Ne w York An American Countess. -In Paris. the Countess Boni de Cas -tellane (one of Jay Gould's daughters). Swho continues to lavish money on all jpossible objects, is said to display more -jewels than the old noble families ap Sprove. At a soiree she wore for the -first time a collar of pearls so large and so beautiful as to make universal comment, as it was thought to be in PALMETTO AFFAIRS Occurrences of Interest in Various Parts of the State. General Cotton Market. Galveston, firm.. .. .. .. ....10 3-16 New Orleans. firm ....10% Mobile, steady.............10 Savannah, steady.. ....... .10 Charleston, firm............10 Wilmington, steady ...... .. ..10/ Norfolk, steady.. .........103/ Baltimore, nominal ..........10% Boston, quiet.. .. .......10.90 Philadelphia, steady.........11.15 Houston, steady.. ........10 3-16 Augusta, steady. . ....101 Memphis, quiet.. ..... ... 101/s St. Louis, quiet.. .. .. .. .. ..10% Louisville, firm ...... ......101/ Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent prices paid to wagons: Good middling.. .. ........10.00 Strict middling.. .. .. ......10.00 Middling.... ... .. .........10.00 Tinges. . .... ....9 to 10 Stains..................7-to 9 Changes at Clemson. There will be some new faces in the faculty of Clemson College this year. Dr. J. N. Harper of Kentucky is the new director of the agricutlural department; Prof. C. L. Newman, re cently of the University of Arkansas, is associate professor of agriculture, Prof. John Mitchells of Michigan is associate professor of animal huban dry and dairying; Prof. James Me Clure of Nashville is instructor in physics; Mr. S. T. Howard has been promoted to be assistant professor of machine work; Mr. John W. Gantt has beei promoted from the position of instructor in drawing to be as sistant professor of forge and foun dry; Mr. C. G. Timberlake, graduate of Miller school,. Va., recently of the Welsh Neck High School, is instruc tor in drawing; Mr. J. E. Hunter has been promoted to be assistant professor of mathematics, and Mr. Burr H. Johnston has been appointed instructor of mathematics in the sub freshman class. There are also some minor changes among the working foremen of the- departments. The Bethel Presbytery. Heath Springs, Special.-Quite a number of preachers and delagetes are in attendence on the Bethel pres bytery, which convened here Tuesday at 3 o'clock p. m. The opening ser mon was preached by Rev. Mr. Lin gle of Rock Hill. Rev. E. E. Gilles pie of Yorkville preached Tuesday ev ening and addressed the congregation on the cause of missions Wednesday morning, after which address some business affairs were discussed. Rev. Will Hafner of Chester occupied the pulpit Wednesday evening. Three services a day are held, preaching morning and evening, business affairs~ in the afternoon. Business affairsA having been disposed of an adjourn meat was called. 3Tew Mill For Gaffney. Gaffney, Special.-The Globe Manu facturing company is the name of a ew mill for Gaffney. It will manu facture cotton goods. They expect to be in operation -by December 1st, 905. The contract for large addi tions to the supply mill, where it will be located, has been let to the Gaff ey Brick company. Houses for the peratives will be erected at once. T'he stockholders had a meeting re ently, at which the following were elected directors: William M. Web ster, W. 0. Lipscomb, W. C. Carpen er, J. A. Carroll, W. H. Smith, D. . Ross, R. L. Spears, H. D. Wheat, . N. Lipscomb and J. C. Jefferies. The irectors elected W. M. Webster pres dent and treasurer and W. 0. Lip somb vice president. Bennettsville's Bid. Bennetsville, Special.-A final meet ng was held here to complete Ben ettsville 's bid for the Presbyterian ollege of South Carolina. A happy ensation was sprung by the reading f a telegram from Mrs.Harriet Mur-~ hison Beck-with, offering $20,000 in ash and 12 acres of land as an indu ement towards the college locating n Bennettsville. ''I do this,'' she aid, ''in memory of my beloved son, ohn D. Murchison, Jr., who died 16 ears ago today, and in memory of y beloved daughter, Elanor Mur~chi on.'' Palmetto Items. Assistant Attorney General W. H.I ownsend went to Wilmington Fri ay afternoon to make argument in he Latta case. This is the question f stopping the Atlantic- Coast Line's fast trains at Latta.I Dr. W. J. Mcgee has discovered how torms are made in the great Amerin an desert in Arizona, known as the 'storm-breeding belt." Railway Wants More Land. Roanoke. SpeciaL-The city was offered $40,000 for the Gish farm of 10 acres, purchased about two years go for $10.000 for park purposes. he offer was made by the Tidewater ailway Company. which recently urchased the fair gronds of .30 acres, ying half a mile east of the Gish farm. The offer must be acepted within 10 days or it will be with rawn. Roanoke business men say it. ndicates that Roanoke is to have the shops of the new road. A Fortune in England. Florence, Special.-Mrs. Willaia Bowie has gone to England to attend to the settlement of an estate in which she is very much interested. By the loss by death of a sister she inh'rits a fortune of about $40,000. The fortune was the property of two maiden aunts who willed it to the one Iof their nieces who should marry last.