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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. BATNE, Pres't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. Undivided Fronts f ?110,000. Facilities o( our magnificent New Vault containing 410 Saf?t7*Lock Doses. Differ en: Sizes ar?? offered to our patrons and tho public at $3X0 to ?IO.W per annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. THE PLANTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited, L. C. HAT?TE, President. W. C. WA BOLAw, Cashier. VOL. LXIV. NO. 44. I w ? -ti T? nr ir ir cn WHEN THE BEL When the bells ring home to the weary souls that roam Io the captains and the sailors that are toss ing OD the foam ; Them'll bo joy and pcaco forever, And sorrow'll seek us never When the bells-when the bells ring homo! ^r^lllAAA -A- A T^T ,Ar Ar A?A -A i BARWOC 9 3 i BY KARR V -W W W IP V*4 V Yeo, it's, true, and I'll say it ag'iu I'd a heap liefer stand still, nud see a sir-shooter p'iuted at ire, with au en emy's finger on the trigger, than seo a candle Hame n-p'inliu' toward me! 'Cause why, yon niought, by some meaus, get over the bullet, but you can't ne*.er get over tho flame; 'taiu't no use to laugh, 'cause it's so, and there's no miner but what knows it, and knows a man's doomed when a flame p'ints him out. There ain't no dodgin' it, nor palaverin' it, nor brib in* it-it just foll?is a man round, and p'ints straight at him, like a finger p'intin' to a signboard with "Dead man" writ on. Most people thinks that accideuts in mines is quick and sudden; now, that ain't so at all, leastwise as far as warnin's is concerned. Iueverknowed trouble to a miue, or to the miners, but what some oue had seen signs of danger that we miners knows how to read. You see them two lamps hangin' np yonder in the corner, with dust xaud cobwebs all over 'em? Well, I wouldn't have em' lighted,not if I had to go in darkness all my life for want of 'em! There's a story to 'em both-one's a short one, and t'other a long one. I'll tell 'em both-the short one first: I had a mate, Bob Williams-me and him worked together most of tho time, and one day I noticed the flame of my candle flickcrin' aud twistiu' about t'll it p'iuted rigl nt Bob, and there it kept steady for two hours or more, follerin' him round, when he moved, as if it was tied fast to him. My heart felt as heavy as lead-? : knowed it meant mischief; but T didn't say nothin' to Bob, except warnin' | him to be extra careful about the blast - for me and him was blastin' that day. Well, he got through all right, aud, as we stepped ou the cage to be drawn np the shaft, I began to thiuk the candle-flame was givin' warnin' too soon for once, though I might a-knowed better,too; but I felt kind of qneeri8h ag'in ns I 6aw it a-stretchin* ont, long and thin, p'intin' still tow ard-5ob, while the cage went slowly np the shaft. kind of leap, and at the same second ... Bob gave a loud cry, ' and staggered backward off the cage-we was both standin' np and holdiu' on to the chains-and down he went hundreds of feet, dashin' his poor body all to pieces against the rough sides; aud,as he fell, my light went out It's never been lit since, and never will be, while I'm a liviu' man. That's the short story-I just felled it to prove what I said about the cau dle-flame; the one I'm coruin' to now is the one I promised you, and the flame gave warnin' then, too, as it allers does, if it's watched proper by them as know it. It was all in the papers about the trouble at Barwood shaft, but it's a mighty different thing, the Rettin' in au easy chair and read in' about acci dents, to the bein' iu 'em and safl'et in' j 'em yourself, I can tell you, special when there's somebody along with you as you car; a heap more about than yon do ab jut yjnrself, and that's how it was with me, as you'll see present ly Barwood mine was one of the finest coal mines to be fonud anywhere, and had been worked many a long year, and it's owners was as rich as the old fellow I've heard tell of-a king named Cry-sis, or Cro^-sis, it don't matter which. I was just married when I got the chance of bein' overseer of the men in the Barwood mine. It w.ns a pretty responsible post, though, of course, there was higher ones. I had to see that the men did their work proper, and follered the orders that were give me for 'em by the manager. There was a map of the mine a-hangin' up in the office, and I used j to study it reg'lar, so as to get all the turns and twists iu my head; aud the more 1 t-tudied its lay, the more an idea crept into my mind and wouldn't be got ont. It was just this: T?e mine, as I said, was au old one, and the part we was workin' in now wasn't the oldest part. There was one part that had been abandoned, beean so once, years before, the water had broke throngh and drowned 20 men, and all their tryin' hadn't ever got the water out ag'in; it was spread all through the mine below old Barwood shaft like the great underground lakes I've read of, and lookin' down into the big, gaping mouth of the shaft, you could see the water gi earn in' 200 feet below. So the owners had to .-ink another shaft away off to tho left of the old one, over a mile away, and then they commenced workin' ag'in. They had been diggin' in a kiud of circle from the new shaft, stretchin' away in every direction, and as I pondered over that map, it grew on me like, that one of the levels wan gettin' entirely too close to the old Barwood shaft, and there might be danger of the penned up- lake a-bustin' through, and drown in' out the new mine just ns it had done the old one. The idea wouldn't leave me at all, and I got so restless and uneasy that my wife noticed it; but wheu I told her at last, she laughed and made fun of my pertendin' to know more than the manager. "You promised to let me go down with you some day," says she, "and now you must take me down with you tomorrow. Poo! to think of your bein'afraid!" I tried to turn her mind, but go she would,and, as I never broke my word to nobody, I had to say she shonld go, special as I didn't think the danger was very near only that it would come if we kept on workin' a few weeks longer-^-in Baxter's stall-for .LS RINC HOME. When the bells ring nomo from eneh ..lory lighted dome When we see the lights beyond us-when we sight the shores of home, There'll bo joy and peace forever, And tears and sighing nover When tho bells-when tho bolls rinc homo! -F. L. 8., io Atlanta Constitution. \ that was the name we'd givon the ! level that was makin' toward the old shaft, after tho mau that worked it. But I couldn't keep quiet no longer, j and so I just up and spoke ont my ; mind to the manager that mornin'.and at first he laughed; and then, when I got the map and p'inted ont the bear iu's of the workin's, and the distance we'd holed out toward the old shaft, he began to look kind of thoughtful, i and eays he: "It'll do no harm to look into the matter, anyhow, my man, and I'll do it the end of this week; won't have time before then. We'll go down to gether, and if ? see any reason for your fears, we'll stop workin' toward ! the shaft-though our best vein lies i that way, too!" So I had to be content with that, I and I was, pretty much, for, as I said, j I didn't suspect tho danger to be very near. Well, in spite of all I could do, my little Bessie was bent on goin' down ? into the mine with rr* and go she , did, though her pretty, red cheeks j got kind of bleached out as the cage i let us down into the black depths of j the shaft. But when we lauded safe, and she I weut about amoug the black-smeared ; miners, willi their lighted candles in side the lamps on their caps, she was ; just delighted; aud when I got ready i to take her back to the sunshine ag'iu, she flatly relused to . go, till I had ' showed her the level where I thought ? the danger would be. 11 'Cause," says she, "if you stop workin' it and shut it up, I ea Vt never go there, while I can go all over tlie rest of the miue any time; ^so you must take me now, Harry, and then I wou't bother you ag'in." Ho there was nothin' for it but to put her on one of the cars aud pn.:h her over the mile of rail that led to I Baxter's stall, and, so as to see better, I took my lamp off my cap, and fastened it on the side of tho car. We had gone pretty near Uw? - ' distance, wh-" made my he flame of the began to flick flash np, and it lengthened c at 'em, as if it scorch 'em. I didn't want confess I was p"? self, and was just n to turn right round ? fast as 1 could, when . crash and roar, and th? uc\t instant I saw Baxter and his mate a-runniu' toward us with all their might. *"The water's broke through!" they shouted, when they saw us. "Get into one of the up-slopes, for your lives!" I didn't need no second warnin'. The water was rushiu' by up to my knees before they had done, and I just snatched Bessie out of the car and dashed, or rather plowed, along as fast asl could, Baxter helpiu' me, till we all got safe inte the nearest rise, and by that time the water was up to the roof in tho main level. We ran till we got to the highest point of the slope, and then we stopped and looked at each other by the light of our lamps-leastwise by Baxter's and his male's, for mine was left on the car, of course, and the white color we all was showed startliu' like through the black streaks, makin' us look more like goblins than human bein's. At first we could only wouder how deep the water was goin' to get before it stopped risiu'; for all we knowe', for awhile, it looked as if we was goin' to be drownded, after all, like rats iu a trap. The water rushed up the slope rapid at first, and then crept up slower and slower, till, when it got about ten yards from us, it stopped risiu', and then Ave had time to thiuk a bit about what it all meant. It wasn't pleasaut thiukin', either;' for we miners knowed just what wo had to expect-to be starved to death where we was; for it didn't seem as if human hands could help us a bit; shut up in that narrow, black tunnel; far, far below the blessed suulight. Oh, how I cursed myself for lettin' my Bessie come down with me! I hope there ain't many mon as has to suffer the remorse 1 did then-and ever siuce, for that matter-aad I felt all the woise, if that could be, when the brave little woman put her arms around me, and said she was glad she was there; that she'd rather die with me than live withont me; and that if she had been above ground, she would be grievin' moro for me than now, when she could help me and suffer with me. It was a hard pull, and no mistake. There we was with just enough fool among us to last for two days,by bein' careful, and we was thankful for that much. It wasn't usual for the men to take their dinners down in the mine, but Baxter's stall was so far from the shaft, that he and his mate, to save time and walkin', took theirs along, and, as it happened, I had brought s:.me lunch, thinkin' Bessie might want somethin' before I was ready to take her back. Ho we could get along without suf ferin' so much for two days, but after that? lt sickens me now to think < f the horror of that time. It was bad enough to think of us three men starv in' to death, but when it came to my poor, brave Bessie sharin' such an awful fate, why, it just broke me down. But her-Lord bless her!-you've got to see a woman put to a test like j that before you find ont all the gi it J that's in her. I loved my wife with all my heart, but oveu I wouldn't havo believed she bad the pluck to face death, and such a fearful, lingeiin' death, so quiet as she did, and so cheerful like. Why, she never grumbled nor cried, and we strong nieu did-yes, we did, that's a fact, 'special after the food give out, and we boguu to feel the hunger workiu' on us. I tried to slip some of my share of the food while it lasted, into Bessie's poriku, and so did the < ther men. bless their kind hearts! but she was too sharp for us, and wouldn't touch a grain beyond her proper share. We cut up our shoes aud leather belts, and after soakiu' 'em in water, chewed on 'em. It wasn't of much use, bat it was belter than uothin*. If it hadn't beeu for Bossio, I do be lieve we'd have gone out of cur minds, waitiu' there iu the pitch dark, for of course our caudles had soon burnt out, aud that last was the only thing that gave me any hope of bein' rescued, for I noticed that the caudles didu't flicker nor p'int at us at all, but just burued steady aud clear till they was bur ut out. My Bessie, she set herself to cheer us up, talkin' about God and the beautiful homes He had made ready for those who repented of their eins, and up to the fifth day she prayed for us, and snug hymns; but after that she was too weak to do more than talk a little, still quiet and cheerful, and tryin' all the time to make us foel ?esigned. Tho sixth day-I had a watch, and kept it wound up, or wo couldn't havo told a thiug about night or day-wo was all ly in', weak aud still, on the rough coal-bed, when ou a sudden Bessie jumped on her feet and raised her hnndsfor us to bequiet. I thought at first she'd gone debris, as Baxter was nigh doin',but i:i a minute we all /heard what her quick ears had caught first. A faint knockin', that sounded like blows on a wall. Ah. that was the cheeriest souud that any of us ever heard in our lives! The blood rushed to our haggard cheeks, and wo leaped to our feet, with hope in our henvts once more. We knowed that kuockiu' was from thu blows of pick? butteriu' down tho wall that held us. "There's a couple of picks lyiV yonder," says Bessie, quickly. "Get them, wait till the kuorkiu1 stops a minute, and the i strike together on the wall. The i they'll kuow that seme one ?3 yet alive here, and the sound will tell them where as well." lt was the most Feasible thing to do, and wo did it. We thought Ave heard I somethiii' that sounded like a faint shout, aud theu the knockin' caine ag'in-three biif W. me's voice, and she, poor soul, could ' hardly speak al all. It was'toirible.thut long wnitin' for three days, but wo knowed they was workin' with might and main to get at tis; and all wo could do was to pray God to giv9 us strength for a few hours loi ger. Nearer aud rearer, louder and loud er, came the noise of tho picks and of fallin' bits of rock, aud thou all at , once the noise stopped, and we heard not bin' more for several hours. Then we felt that for some reason the attempt to reach us had failed,and . -well, the change was too much to , bear, and I suppose we fainted, for that's how they found us when at last . the break was made in the wall. I heard afterwu'dthat the noise stopped 'cause somo fire-damp begun to creep . in oh the miners, and they had to floe . for their lives. Bessie was months gettiu' over bet Bufterin's i:i that awful time, but we men soon picked np ag'in. H?>w about the two trap-boys and the three miuers my cavdle-flarae p'iuted nt? They was drownded, of course, just them and no more, poor fellows! The flams knowed what wa3 goin' to happen, though wo didn't. We found their bores, a year after wards, when they got the mine drained out partial-like; and thea's when I got hold of my lamp ag'in, just where I left it on the car. But it'll never be lit-never! Poon Flniiihett tho ri rt ure. The painter Hawkins, at 20 years of age, was tho centre of acclamation, but at the close of his life he is de- , scribed ns having lived in a fool's par adise, content with himself and fat- j teuing on the empty praise he had \ vron. The mischief lay in the fact - that ho was an excellout boon com panion. On one occasion he was asked by a Mr. Ackers, a member of parliament, to accompany him and one or two 1 others to Paris, the host promisiug to i give him a holiday aud pay all his expenses. Hawkins objected. "I'm busy on a picture," said he, "and I want to finish it for exhibition." "Never mind that," returned Ackers, "bring it with you and paint it there." Hawkins yielded, as he alway did in the end, and the picture was put into the carriage. As they were driv ing along Mr. Ackers asked to be allowed to look at it, and when it was uncovered he said : "What do you want for it?" "I shall want fifty pounds for it when it's finished," auswered Haw kins. "Very well," returned tho member of parli"-jeiit, "I'll give it to you, and 1 ll finish the picture for you, too." With that he kicked a hole thiough the canvas, and the artist was thus set free for an undisturbed jollification. -Tit-Bits. ISiifj?reB'Ion. He-Hypnotism, you soe, is only an act of sugges:iou. The doctors make cures by suggestion. She-Do you think if you were to f-u^gest ice cream it would cure my h unge'-?-Indianapolis .Iou tn ah THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. BATNE, Pres't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. Undivided Fronts f ?110,000. Facilities o( our magnificent New Vault containing 410 Saf?t7*Lock Doses. Differ en: Sizes ar?? offered to our patrons and tho public at $3X0 to ?IO.W per annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. THE PLANTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited, L. C. HAT?TE, President. W. C. WA BOLAw, Cashier. VOL. LXIV. NO. 44. I w ? -ti T? nr ir ir cn fHE OLYMPIA. I wtevj's Flagship From the g? to JpipedoWn. ^ AND AT PLAY. S I rashing does not cnll for skill orprep ratiou. Tor instance, if the article o be renovated is tho flannel shirt, ack selects a clear part of the deck, prinkles a little water upon the spot, hen spreads his shirt, previously oaked, upon the deck. Then with alt water soap and u scrubbing brush te sets to work. A subsequent rinsing toinpletes the task and the garment AT MESS ON BOAR! s fastened with bits of twine to the ?lothesliue stretched from mast to nest. Holystoning decks and scrubbing udders and gratings with saud and ;anvas continues until ten minutes of } o'clock, when the call to "spread ness gear" is sounded by thc ?boat iwain's mate on watch. This is also ;he signal to cleau up, and each jackie ,'rahs a deck bucket, gets his share of resh water from the captain of his )?rt of the ship, aud mokes his toilet, vhich, if not elaborate, amply suflices or his needs. After ^he washing, thc sailor's eilet consists of a vigorous rubbing nth a coarse towel-bis own private property-and n hair brushing -with he aid of an ancient brush anda small vooden-framed glass generally carried n the little chest, or ditty box,-which s the officially approved trunk of each ackic. At the stroke of eight bells, 8 j'clock, the call to breakfast is given, salty air and an ono? rOAFZiAIN r.EAN'BT, OF THE OLYMPIA. Breakfast over, the men havo until ) to smoke, then all hands aro turned n and the ship is cleaned up for quar era. This latter ceremony is con luctod daily, rain or shine. During reek days the morning hours are generally devoted to drill. A settled chedule is inado out when the ship ;oes into commission, and this is trictly adhered to. Each ship has ts general quarters, fire quarters, lollision drill, abandon ship, arm and iway boats, broadsword exercise, or lomething of similar character, and rom 9.30 until noon the decks are dive with men under instruction. Dinner is followed by a short rest, md at 1 o'clock "turn to" is sounded ?gain. During the afternoon five lays of the week tho crew is kept at vork attending to the multifarious luties of the ship.' Saturday after toon is considered a half holiday, the inoking lamp is lighted, and if the hip is in port the men are allowed to ee visitors and enjoy themselves ac lording to their individual inclina ions. With mess-gear in the early ivening, the working day ends. Sup >er is followed by a period of re ?G DRILL. laxation until the mellow notes of the | bugle sound tops, and the boatswain's mate's whistle echoes through the decks in the last call of the day "pipe down." Thore are many other incidents j which go to make up the naval day. Al ?ea; when the chip's company is ? ?itldocl into watches, the monotony is -rester than in port. It is during the after time, with fha fleet gtanchoroff ome friendly city, or H-hta the ship s tied np to a dock in oueo'i 4?ie home iavy yards, that Jack finds his" i*&at9 illed with variety and pleasures BUfS' dent to satisfy even his dosires. It s then tho liberty list-a potent term ii tho navy-is made ont. To dis ;over ohe'o name on the liberty lis! neans shore with its fascinating at raetions, aud if there is anything on ;his footstool the average sailer loves t is to *'hit the beach" with a fnw lollara in his pocket. Sunday is. as far as possible, kept is a day of rest. After the morning scrub aud inspection comos service by the chaplaiu. The old rhyme of Six dnys shalt thou labor and do all tbat thou nrt able; Dn the seventh, holystone the decks and scour the cable. D TEE OLYMPIA. Ts no longer appropriate, since all labor, except what is absolutely neces sary, is dispensed with. To attend diviuo service, dressed in their best, is the one extra duty re quired of the men, and the afternoon is practically free until sundown. Chaplain Eeaney, of tho Olympia, is DUO of tho most popular men aboard, ind the men confide in him to an ex tent that is remarkable. Diogenes on a >'evr Quest. A street scene in Athens about 300 B. C. Time, evening. Diogenes en ters, swinging bis l?utern. Stranger soming from opposite direction meete Diogenes and greets him with: 'Tor whom art thou looking, friend?" Diogcues-"For an honest man." Same scene, two hours later, in the dark. Same Diogenes, this time with out lantern, bumpsiuto same stranger. Stranger- ' 'For whom art thou look ing, fri pn ri 9" .-o- ~--ulluub ?"**.-o idvance himself; every man who .ecognizes tho ladder by which he -limbed, and is not ashamed to icknowledge he was ouce at the bot ;om round, has a good word for the lome paper, the corn try newspaper, Urbich is tho baror.oter of business ind the artery through which it is in -reased and kept alive. A Relic of the Light Brigade** Charge. A soldier's mouldy hat has just been !ound under a huge stone in the 'Valley of Death" at Balaclava. Some joys had shifted the bowlder, as bees lad built a nest beneath it, and'the youngsters wanted to get the honey. From the design of the badge it ia ?vident that tho headgear belonged to i trooper of the Seventeenth Lancers, 1 i corps which was included in the im nortal Light Brigade. - London Chronicle. Oyster Opening an Art. It takes one hundred million oysters i week to satisfy the requirements of :he New York market. This year the supply promises to be prolific. ANATOMY OF TUE OYSTER. The oyster openers are a class by themselves, as distinct and clannish as the 'longshoremen for ocean liners. They reocive 31 a thousand, and it is a poor shucker that cannot earn $5 in a day's work of eight hours. Many of them earn ?8 and 39. There are as many ways of opening an oyster as there are of carving a duok, and each shucker thinks that nis way is the best. It depends upon where a man has been brought np to the business. Men who have been brought up in New York use nothing but the knife, but they use it in dif ferent ways. Not one man in a hun dred is a good side knife opener. Other men who use nothing but the knife simply stab the oyster. Epicures declare that this spoils it, but oyster men say that for the general trade it makes little difference. If a shucker has been brought up iu the South, Baltimore or Norfolk, for instance, he uses a hammer as well as a knife in opening an oyster. An Kditov'a Just Flalnt. 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