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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S.- C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1897. VOL. LXII. NO 33. THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S.- C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1897. VOL. LXII. NO 33. ?INCE A-wooing cruel Patience, Went I, a love-slok swain, And, soro of heart and of conceit, For love found only pain. Then straight I turned"me round about And would have strode away, But saw tho maidon's lashes drop As though to bid me stav; And while I pondered if to" go Thero came a whisper-faltering-tow, "Kind sir,-have Patience." -Richard Stillman Powell, in Puck, : WITH A TIGER. RD ROBINSON. np, and then, after deliberately stretching himself, came leaping with l?Qg> graceful bounds over the rauk grass aud rocks which separated him from the road. He did not seem a bit angry, but evidently wished to get a nearer view of such an extraordinary object. Forty yards, however, I thought was quite near enough for safely. The tiger was in the road behind mo now; so I pulled myself together and begau to quicken my pace. Would he stop disgusted after the first hundred yards and give up the chase, or would he stick to it? I quite hoped he would follow me, and already pictured in my mind the graphic des cription I would write home of my bi cycle race with a tiger. Little did I think what a terrible race it was going to be. 11 joked be- : hind me. By jove! ho was "sticking ; to it. " I could ?ot judge thc distance ; but at any rate I was not farther from him than when we started. Now for a spurt. I rode the next half mile at a lively pace, but on agaiu looking round, found I had not gained a yard. The tiger was on my track, moving with a long, swinging trot, and going quite as quickly as I was. For the first time I began to feel anxious, and thought uneasily of the ten long miles which separated me i from safety. However, it was no good thinking | now; it was my muscle and "bike" against the tiger. I could only do my bestand trust to Providence. Now there was no doubt about the tiger's intentions; his blood was up and on he came, occasionally giving vent to a roar which made the ground tremble. Auother milo had been tra versed and the brute wr 3 slowly but surely closing up. I dashed my pouch to the ground, hoping it would? stop him for a few sec onds; but he kept steadily on and I felt it was then grim earnest. I calculated we mast be about seven miles from camp now, and before I could ride another four miles my pur suer, I- knew, mjist reach me^Oh^I seemed-like long hours! Another mile passed, then another. I could him behind me now, pad, pad, pad, quicker and quicker and quicker, louder and louder. I turned in my saddle for a moment and saw thero were not twenty yards separating us! Hov/ enormous the brute looked, and how terrible! His huge tongue hung out, and thc only sound he made was a continual hoarse growl of rage, while his eyes seemed literally to flash fire. It was like some awful nightmare, and with a shudder I beut down over the handles and flow on. On, on, on, I scorched, the slight est slip I knew would be fatal; a sud den jolt, a screw giving, a pedal break ing, and I should bo hurled to instant death. My strength would not stand much more; the prolonged strain had told upon me, ond I felt all would soon be over. My breath came in thick sobs, a mist gathered before my eyes-I was stopping: my legs refused to move and a thousand fiends seemed to be flitting about me, holding me back! A weight like lead was on my chest; I was dying. Then a few moments which seemed a lifetime, and then-crash-with a roar like thunder the tiger was on me and I was crushed to the ground. Then I heard shots fired, a babel of men's voices, and all was blank. * * * V * * After many days of unconsciousness and raging fever, reason gradually re turned, and I learned tho particulars of my deliverance. A party of officers had started with a shikaree (native hunter) to a trap which had been prepared for the tiger. They were talking of our coming bi cycle race, as they went along, and ex pecting every moment to meet mo on my return journey. As they passed a clump of bushes I came in sight whirl ing along in a cloud of dust, which hid my terrible pursuer. They soon, however, saw my awful danger. The huge brute, mad with rage, hurled itself upon me just as wo reached them. My friends stood almost petrified with terror and did not dare to fire; but the shikaree sprang quickly to within a yard of the tiger, and puttin his rifle almost to the animal's ear, fired twice and blew its brains out, just in time to save my life. I was drawn from under the palpitating body of my dead enemy, everyone present believ ing it was all up with me. Making a litter of boughs th6y car ried me into camp, where I lay for many weeks, lingering between life and death. The tiger's skin now adorns my study, as my first and last prize won in a bicycle race.-The White Ele phant. World's l?lKBOKt Fountain. The greatest fountain in the world was turned on recently at Indianapolis, Ind., and permitted to flow for an hour, It is one of the cascades net/ in th( course of construction at the base o! the Soldiers' Monument. The flow o: water measures fully up to the con tract, which calls for 7000 gallons i minute at each of the two cascades a! a regular thing, with a capacity mulei high pressure, however, that is nanci greater. The combined capacity o the world-famous fountains at Versail les, hitherto the largest in the world is 80,000 gallons an-hour. They wouh make hut fee'ole streams in comparisoi with the monument cascades, and ye the cost of running the French foun tains is so great that the water is oui; turned on on gala days. So far all tho mining that has been done in the Klondike country has been what is known as placer mining. This is the simplest and oldest form of mining, and is usually adopted in new gold fields. In its crudest form, placer mining is simply the picking np of a panful of dirt from the bed of a stream where gold is supposed to ex ist, the washing away of the dirt and pebbles and the gathering of the gold, which, because of its weight, sinks to the bottom of the pan. For example, let us follow a pros pector on some stream in our Western gold fields, whero the complication of eternally frozen ground docs not enter iuto the question. After traveling perhaps many weary days ho comes on a stream coming down some moun tain gorge that looks "likely," as he says, to his practiced eye. He stops and examines the pebbles on the bot tom, and finds a good many of them are of quartz. This, although not in itself an indi cation of gold, is a good sign, so the prospector scrapes away the earth and stones at the bottom of the stream to tho depth of a foot or so, and then takes out a panful of dirt. The pan, by tho way, is nothing but a broad, shallow dish of strong sheet iron. Having done this, he puts in enough water to make the panful semi-liquid, aud then gives it a rapid, twirling mo tion. This causes the gold, if herc is any, to sink to the bottom of tue pan. Tlien tlic groveland saud are carefully washed out until only the heavy* resi due remains in the pan. This residue is carefully examined to soe how many "colors" there are in it. "Colors" is the term miners give to tho particles or nuggets, if there are any, of gold that can be seen at tho bottom of the pan. But gold is not the only thing that sinks to the bottom of the pan. Al TWO TITICATJ KLONDIKE BS IX FULti DRESS most always there is found with gold a fine blacksand, which is magnetic iron ore, and from this tho gold has to be separated. Of course, if the gold is in nuggets of any size this is a simple process, but if it is in fine dust, as is j generally tho case, the mercury pro , cess is employed. j lu this the residue in the pan is j placed in a barre! with some water and ; mercury. The gold, when it touches the mercury, forms an amalgam. After a quantity of gold has been put in the barrel the mercury is taken out, squeezed through a buckskin bag, and what remains in tho bag is heated, either in a retort or in some other way, until what mercury is left is va porized, and the gold remains, nearly pure. This is placer mining in its most primitive form, but it is slow work, and i long ago various methods were devised ! to shorten it where it was to be carried ' on to any extent. j The first step in advance in placer SLUICING AT A RICH (From lins mino 98000 was talton from a Bioos. It is officially design; mining is the use of the "rocker, The rocker looks like one of the ol cradles we find once in a while in tl attic of some old house up in the com try. It is a box about three feet loi and two feet wide, placed on rocke just like a eradlo. A part of the b< is covered with a piece of heavy she iron, placed a few inches below tl top and punched full of holes about quarter of an inch in diameter. Tl bottom of the rest of the box slau towards the lower end and is cover with a piece of woolen blanket. 1 E KLONDIKE. y the Precious Dust is Taken ie Earth. wards the end of the box slats are placed across, with mercury behind them, to catch what gold gets by above. The miner sets up his rocker near the stream and piles his gravel on the the sheet iron, keeping it wet all -the while and keeping the rocker in motion. The line gold and sand sift through to the blanket, while nuggets of any size remain on tho iron. Tho finer gold settles on the blanket and the dust is caught by tho mercury behind the slats. The blanket is frequently rinsed | in a banvl of water with mercury at the bottom, aud tim mercury, together 1. THAWING OUT THE DIRT. of holes and mercury placed under neath. A long line of these boxes is placed at a considerable slant and the miner shovels his gravel in at the up-, per end, lets the water run down the sluice and the gold, if in nuggets, pinks and is held by tho rdnts, or, if fine, is caught by the mercury. Throe times as much gold can be washed out in this way as by a rocker, because three times as much dirt can be washed. And after the boxes ave all done with they aro burned and tho ashes washed for tho gold held by the wood. These aro the various methods of placer mining and thus they ure prac ? tised in the Klondike region, hampered only by the natural conditions of the country. Let us nov/ look for a mo I mont at what theso conditions compel tho Klondike miner to do. Let us suppose the gold-hunter has passed through the difficult journey and arrived at the gold fields. He first qocs out and prospects until he finds j a claim where the "colors" in his pan i encourage him to locate. If he should j happen to be early on a new field he ? wonk! probably stake out a claim next j to one that was already paying in the hope that his would pay, too. A Klondike claim is sujDjmsed to be laid out 500 feet long parallel with tho general direction ox the creek, and 666 feet crosswise, tho idea being to givo each location the width of the CLAIM IN THE KLONDIKE. |ii<v:o of ground 24 by 14 feet in plane dlmei rited us "No. 2, Below," Bonanza.) ." i gravel from rim rock to rim roo! ld j Mo.st of the creeks up thero have ie I slight fall with wide bottoms. Bei ii- j rock is anywhere from four to tweni ig j feet below tho surface and pay dirt rs ? apt to extend clear down to bedroe >x j Of course, the great difficulty th et j tho miner has to contend with is tl ie ; fact that tho ground is frozen sol a ! about ul I the year, and even iu summ lie j thaws only a few inches. This mat ta j il necessary to thaw the ground ar' ed j floially, and this is done by "bur 'o- jing." Fires are built on the surface and the ground thawed a little ways. This ia then dug out; another fire is built in -the hole, and this process is con tinued until bedrock is reached. Then fires are built against the side of the shaft, and drifts and tunnels are thawed out. All the dirt thus taken out is piled outside until the stream opens in theJi spring. Then the sluice boxes are set upland the winter's diggings washed oula Thus a miner is enabled to keep busy about all the ye?r. gillis method of burning out a shaft an^'tunnels is by no means new, for it haaheen oarried on for many years in th^'basins of the Amoor and Lena Bfipers in Siberia, where the aonditions arjfrvery similar to thoso in the Klon dike region. jtflacer mining in Alaska differs from pl^?er mining in warmer climates only in^hat the dirt has to be thawed out, and that water for washing can be ob tained there only a month or two in each year. And even when bedrock is reached it fe in many cases filled with cracks and seams-which are rich in gold and well worth the digging out. As lo the value of explosives in this frozen soil authorities differ. The Mining and from $130 to .$150 a thousand feet. So far most of the gold found in placer mining in the Klondike region A SLUICE BOX. has been coarse, and many of the nug gets have been found attached tc quartz. This, according to experts indicates that the veins from which i originates are not far distant from th< alluvial deposits. Placer gold is lib orated by the erosive agencies of ice rocks and water from the rock matri: in which it is held. It is tougher thai tho rock which holds it and resist abrasion better. Drawing an inferenc from other regions where placer gol has been found in larg? quantities, i is reasonable to expect that in th Yukon country rich gold lodes will b found. And this brings us to tht. subject c quartz mining in Alaska, for the gold bearing region up there is by no meau confined to the Klondike country. Ai cording to tho recently publishe hand-book on "Klondike," written b L. A. Coolidge, of Washington, thei are in southeastern Alaska gold min? which have been worked for the pa; twelve years, and which in 1895 adde over $2,000,000 to the gold surplus < the world. Of this mining regie Juneau is the centre, and its discovei is shared by Richard Harris ar Joseph Juneau, in 1880 these tv men started out from Sit ka-it was : tho summer-and iu August disco ered gold in a stream which th? named Gold Creek. Later they e plored this stream to its source in mountain valley, which they nam? Silver Bow Basin. Then a town si was established at tho mouth of Go Creek, which was ai first named Hil risburg. Later it was changed Rockwell an<l thou to Juneau, whi name it still holds. This last christe ing took place in ISSI. lire next year both placer ai quartz mines were discovered on Dou las Island, about four miles frc Juneau. These aro now the famo Treadwell mines, having been bought by John Treadwell in 1884, and, says Mr. Coolidge, "from these enough ore has been taken out to pay the purchase money of Alaska and more." The ore of these mines average only from 82.50 to S3 a ton, but owing to the enormous scale on which they are worked and the low cost of extracting the ore there is a large profit in working them. All around Juucau and, for that mat ter, all along the Alaskan coast, gold? MINEr. TESTXNG GRAVEL. bearing quartz is found, and in manyi places is being profitably worked. There seems to be little doubt among, mining experts that extensive quartz! mines will be located in this Yukon country before long. This will mean the introduction into that country of all sorts of improved mining machin ery, rock drills, stamp mills and so on.. Just what method will be employed to extract the ore from the rock will de-; pend on what kind of ore is found. It' may only have to be crushed, andi separated by mercury. It may be re fractory ore and have to go through some one of the various processes now in use for separating such ore. As soon as the mines are found: means of transporting the machinery' will be provided and the mines will be' started. Mines in rock, of course,will not be delayed by the weather condi tions -which make placer mining so dif ficult in that country, Rock doesn't freeze and the deeper down the mines go the warmer it will get, so perhaps this kind of mining will be the pleas anter of the two. A MILLION-DOLLAR CLOAK, Richest G.iroiont In the World Now in the >'utionnl Museum. What is probably the most costly cloak in the world is now in the Na tional Museum, and was onco the property of the Queens of the Hawaiian Islands in barbarous days. This cape belonged to the wife of Kehuaskalani, * one of the most powerful chiefs of the islands.. After tho abolition of slavery in 1841 this chief rebelled and tried to re-establish the ancient religion. A bloody battle was fought, the King and Queen were slain, and the cloak fell into tho hands of the victors, thus be coming the property of King Kame hameha III., and by him given to Cap tain J. H. Aulick, U. S. N. The foundation of the cape is a net work of olona, or native hemp, and to it are attached hy means of fine threads of the same material the feathers of native birds found only on the islands, tho feathers overlapping and forming a smooth surface. The feathers form on the outside crescents of red. yellow aud black. Tho inner lining is with out quilting and shows the network and ends of the feathers. The yellow and black feathers are obtained from the Oo, or Oho, the yel low ones being of great value, as the bird is comparatively rare, shy and hard to capture. So very rave is tho hird, and so small its stock of feathers, that three yellow ones once sold for a large sum. From fifty to a hundred years was the time expended in making this cloak, so that its -worth in labor is estimated at a million dollars. Tho making of these cloaks, which were once worn by royalty alone, and regarded as thc treasures of the Crown, was common in the islands prior to tho coming of tho whites. The precious yellow feathers AV ere exacted as tribute by thc king, the bird being caught alive with bird lime and then set free. But it required a great nianj years to got enough material to mak( the cloak, which is four feet in lengtl and over six feet in width. Boat! Like Kic Caskets. Curious boats which look like bi{ baskets ave used in Busrah, the Ven ice of Turkish Arabia. As a mattor o fact, they aro practically baskets, be ing made of wickerwork, plastered t< keep out tho M ater. They are knowi as gophers, and tho European wb boards them feels himself to be muol like tho threo men of Gotham wh went to sea in a bowl. Until compare tively recent times a boat somethin similar in shape and made with th samo material, called coracles, wer used by fishermen on many of th turbulent streams in Wales. Noothe form of a boat could hope to surviv tho navigation of those streams, an WICKER BOATS OF TURKISH ARABIA. bumping against bowlders and dro ping over small cataracts in them d them no material damage. Since the your Queen Victoi first entered a railway carriage, s has traveled something like 2,000,0 miles. This beats the Prince of Wal by about 500,000 miles, and the Du ol' Cambridge by nearly 1,000,0 mildB. -* SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, ' Inhabitants of Simu, of mixed blood, have faces that are spotted, pie? bald, and even white on one side and black on the other. The electric tramway at Lausanne; Switzerland, runs up the steepest in cline surmounted by any train depend ing on adhesion to the rails-1?.3 per cent, in one place. Black, blue and red ink used in German public schools has been found to contain microbes. "When scientifi cally developed they prove fatal to mice within four days. Tests of a parasitic fungus in Cape Colony promise au effective remedy against locust swarms, large numbers of the inseots having died a few days after infection of a few specimens. The advantages of acetylene for motor-carriages have not been over looked. The acetylene motor rnow ' being built to the design of Bl Raoul Pictet will have three cylinders, and will develop ten horsepower white oc cupying small space. Some idea of the fine point J:o which platinum wire can be drawn will be got from the fact that threads have been drawn, two of which can bo twisted together and inserted within the hollow of a human hair. These threads are so small that it needs a magnifying glass to see them. The eminent Swiss specialist, Dr. Yersin, a pupil of Pasteur, declares j his conviction that the plague which has prevailed in southern China since 1894, aud in British India since 1896, is the genuine black death of the mid dle ages, and that it will in all proba bility reach Europe in a year or two. Digestion proceeds more rapidly in the horse with active exercise than when eating is followed by a period of rest, according to the experiments of Dr. Tange, of Buda-Pesth. In the dog and in man, the opposite is true, which shows how unsafe it is to infer results in one animal from observa tions on another. In experiments at some Prussian sugar works the use of electrolysis alone for purifying beet root juice is reported to have proven impracticable. When used in conjunction with lime, however, electrolysis completes the action, and precipitates almost three times the nitrogenous matters that are removed in the ordinary separation. The combined process is estimated to have saved about 37000 in treating 70,000,000 pounds of beet root. A piece of glass may be made irides cent, according to a correspondent of London Engineering, by flooding with a dilute solution of silicate of soda, and allowing it to dry spontaneously in an upright position. Washing the plate in running water und again dry ,over the European continent, is ?scribed' in a German medical paper, tis preparation has long been known Russia, v.'here it is sold under the [me of "rogogeski." It is made in fe following way: The manufacturers of this adulterate buy in the tea houses the residue from the teapots-leaves which have already been u?ed-and mix these leaves, while still moist, with other leaves and very little genuine tea. The mixture is heated with an addition of extract of caramel and campeche wood, in order to im prove the color and the taste. The weight is also increased by the addi tion of saud or soil, aud just before being dried, the leaves are rolled be tween the hands. The adulteration is so difficult to recognize that a chemical test is necessary to prove it. If tea prepared in this way is dipped into a cold saturated solution of cop per, the blue color of this solution will not be changed, not even if the adulterated tea is allowed to remain in it for three or four months. If the tea is fresh and has not previously been soaked, the solution will turn green within a short time. When Elephants Have Toothache. It is not easy to tell when an ele phant has got a toothache, but it is best to keep out of his way when you do know it. A London surgeon, who hat! been for many years in India, says he would sooner risk a railway accident than meet au elephant with a tooth ache. It appears that a toothache affects an elephant in a more severe inannei thau it does any other animal. Ele phants have very sensitive nerves, and a touch of toothache often brings on madness. Providing you are able to chain dowu an elephant and draw out the offend ing tooth, the brute is certain to be af fectionate to yon afterward. Here ii an instance: An elephant in Bengal, India, be same affected with toothache, but th( keepers managed to secure it while t dentist drew a decayed tooth-th? nause of tho trouble. After a time th< alephant seemed to understand tba the dentist was trying to do somethini For his pain, and he g?ve every evi deuce of appreciating the attention When the operation was over he friskec round the dentist like a young lamb -Answers. A Kcmurkablo Mule. Professor T. D. Boaz has found mule that he says is thirty-eight year of age. The animal is now the prop erty of "Hub" Crider, in the easter portion of the county. He was raise by the professor's father, and durin the war was hidden ou several OCC? sions to prevent his falling into th hands of the soldiers. He was sol when twenty-fou** years of age, an that, the professor says, was fourtee years ago, makin? the animal now tl remarkable age of thirty-eight. He still in pretty good fix, and will prol ably live to be forty, if not older. Mayfield (Ky.) Monitor. India liuhher Streets. India rubber as a paving for stree was tried on a bridge in Hanove Germany, a little more than a ye ago, and proved so satisfactory th experiments are being made in Be lin and Hamburg with it from ore uary roadways. It is sui 1 to be pt fectly noiseless, unaffected by heat cold! and less slippery and more di able than asphalt. Johnson's Chi Hand Fe ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. What a Steamship Carries. The famous steamship Great East ern, historically associated with the first efforts to lay Atlantic telegraph cables, has hitherto been regarded as the largest vessel ever launched. Its laurels as a sea leviathan, however, are of late endangered. The new ocean freighter, Pennsylvania, al though scarcely attaining the external measurements of the former celebrated ship, will carry far more cargo. The capacity, indeed, of these new freight ships is a matter for astonishment to a landsman. The Pennsylvania, for example, is rated at twenty thousand tons burden, and will carry loads such as may be briefly itemized thus: One hundred and sixty thousand bushels of wheat, equal to 320 car loads, or sixteen trains of twenty cars each; 1,000 tons of flour, eighty car loads; 4,000 boxes of bacon, seventy, i five car loads; 3,000 tierces of lard, i forty-eight car loads; .1,300 bales of i cotton, forty car .loads; 1,200 head of live cattle, eighty car loads; 3,600. quarters of dressed beef. In addition there will probably be a thousand tons of miscellaneous mer chandise, say eighty car loads more; in all not less than 780 car loads, oj thirty-nine long trains of twenty cars each. Nor is the above by any means the entire load of the modern ark. The Pennsylvania will have accommoda tions for from eight hundred to one thousand steerage passengers, as also for a crew of one hundred and fifty cattlemen, with food and fodder for all. In the fuel bins, too, there will be carried a burden of 1,300 tons of coal, or more than 100 car loads. If we were to say that the entire agricultural products of sixty New England towns, or twenty -western counties, could all be stowed away in this mammoth ship,' we should not exceed the facts.-Atlanta Constitu tion. _ Why take Johnson's Chill ?c Fever Tonic? Because it cures the most stubborn case of Fever in ONE DA Y Life on a New York Fire-Boat "house journal." The deck-watch sees that other boats do not run Into his vessel, and also keeps a sharp lookout for fires along the river. In the sum mer, when there are few fires, a posi tion on the fire-boat Is a pleasant berth, for there is plenty of outdoor life and sunshine; but in winter, when a keen nor'wester is blowing, and every bit of spray freezer hard wherever it strikes, the land companies no doubt have the advantage. Fighting fire along the water-front in midwinter has all the dangers and the suffering of fire-duty ashore; and climbing up the sides of vessels and upon wharfs and piers, getting lines into position, when every bit of surface is covered with a thick coating of ice, is risky business; but, as one of tho crew of Zophar Mills remarked philo sophically, "You have to take it as it comes-the fat and the lean together." -St. Nicholas. Quinine and other fe* ver medicines take from 5 to 10 days to cure fever. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. Kittens in the Church Organ. The more devout of the parishioner? of St. Mary's Catholic church, Forty sixth street, Lawrenceville, who at tended vespers on Sunday evening, had a special musical treat in store for them. As Mrs. Charles Mitchell, the or ganist, took her seat at the organ and began to play ono of the vesperal hymns a strange quartet responded, not in the solemn tones of the Grego rian chant, but "Mew, mew, mew." The whole choir were dumbfound ed. There were no feline musicians in sight, still the mewing kept time to the strains of the organ. In a few minutes a large cat crawled out from beneath the pedals of the organ, much to the dismay of the organist, as she had her feet on the pedals at the time, and the glaring fire in the eyes of the ferocious feline mother in a way ex plained who the new musicians were. However, no effort was made to find them until after vespers, but then the search was made under the direction of Father Tobin. Deep in the bow els of the* organ were found four little kittens only about four hours old. They could not have been any older, as they surely were not there while high mass was sung and played in the morning. The mother was allow ed to return to her young, who were not disturbed, as they were comforta bly quartered in the $i,500 organ. Johnson's Chill and Fe* ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever ia 24 Hours. WHERE KNOWLEDGE MEANT POWER. "What a lovely bouquet !" "Yes; I'm taking it to Mrs. "Wells, as thia is her birthday." "But I thought you were not on very good terms with her now," "Neither I am, but this is her fortieth birthday, and she knowe that I am the only one who knows it,"