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PHE HRTIONRL BANK OF AUGUSTA ?? <!. HAYNE, Proa't F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $?50,000. Vto?iTlded Profits } $110,000. Facilities of our magnificent New Vault containing 410 safety-Lock Boxes. Differ ent Sises are offered to our patrons and the public at $3.00 to.910.00 j>er """"m THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVIRGS AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest jj on Deposita, j Accounts Solicited. Li. C. HAXXS, President. W. O. WA EDI.AW, Cashier. THOS. J ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1901. VOL. LXVJ. NO:l. LA Proposa Tor some time," observed Mr. Markham, "I have been beset by the ?dea of proposing to you." He was -standing with his excellently , flat back to the mantelpiece, and Miss <Jreat<wcx -was covering a silk bandan na handkerchief with An opposition lectern in colored wools-why. Mr. .Markham could not make out There was no om? else in the room, and. as Was evt?ofot the gentleman was dis- | jpotwd be confidential. ; ZM*S" Greatorex smileOL, --.3ftnd why have ycu ?bt?" *ul\ have at times been half afraid that you. might accept," replied the candid young man. "At others," he added (thoughtfully removing an al* imost Invisible dust speck from hts starve), "I have beon much perturbed fcfy the possibility-that you might re- . "fuse." . "It would be .disagreeable t<* toe re fused,".remarked the ladys impersonal ly.; . ""That," the gentleman considered, .'depends, it I was sure I wanted to marry-jtl(U,,it.wouldc?E^uuqiiestionably ?lisagtvieable to be refirma." ""And you arc sure?" *'No; very far indeed from being so. At times 1 think I should much enjoy the role of Mr.Grentorex, so to speak." ""But not always V" '. "Oh, dear nol-not nearly always." Miss Greatorex had a canary, which at ibis Juncture began to sing with an ah- of the most uncontrollable uierrb taent Mr. Markham went io ?. neigh boring drawer, and produced thence a cloth, with which he Covered the cage. "You are not sure whether you are In love, w.'yii me or no?" remarked the younjr lad}', as the bird's indignant silence succeeded to his privions Irrele vant, rhapsody. ^ilr. Markham came back to the man? "telpiece and, having ?vadjusted his back, he said in a lor,- voice? and look ing down at the very adjacent brown, bent head "I admit I am disappointed." She looked up rather quickly. . "'Bitterly, 1 had no idea that you could be stupid-lt is evidently possi " ?5 f H L '. From the motion of Miss Greatorex, her head-as they would say in the old books-he implied a note of interroga tion. . "It is stupid not to have grasped the question. I have for quite a long time < iknown that I was in love with you." "Ever since luncheon?" "Perhaps not quite so long as that But certainly ever since, almost ever since Lady Greatorex left the room. ..tThe younjjjady laughed. **Wns my mother such an Instance George Pilot's malign prophet standing behind her daughter and threatening what she will be." "I merely meant that thc presence of a chaperon is incompatible with sentiment "I," observed the young woman, "do ? not mind admitting that I am getting confused. You now assert that for more than 20 minutes you have adored Jg -me'^'CMr. Markham's shoulders ap . peared to de;-eciate the exaggeration ot; this 'rhetoric), "and a moment ago - you seemed much to doubt your love." lr? .*Kot at all. That is why I lately called you stupid. I am sure that I am in love; but I am very uncertain as to whether I would like to marry the beloved object." ;;v Miss Greatorex laughed. *T admit it sounds, perhaps, improp er. I merely mean that marriage as 'fi the necessary denouement of being what is called in love seems to me quite a doubtful expedient. When there is no question of being in love," he con tinued, relaxing himself by a short j .'.^ walk to the other end of the ronni and lift back, "I think marriage not* a bad ar j rangement It is then merely a form ? of business partnership, and now that ?.J lt has erased to be insoluble has no . special terrors. But you and I have nothing to'gain by that I am exceed ingly--well off, so are you. I do not need to marry- for position nor do you. We neither of us need to demand blood, like Hamlet's amit. In fine, as "they say in the 'Arabian Night-:,' you have nothing ro gain by me, and I have no mnterial need of anything you can supply to me. Markham is just as - flne a place as Greatorex abbey, and not a blt finer. When I speak of bsing In love it is purely a personal sensa tion; I should like it to become chronic. . I really enjoy being in love. But if we got married!" "You cannot anticipate your love standing that crucial test?" "I honestly admit that I have my doubts. We live in a straightforward age; let me make a clean breast of them. Do you, for instance, like to talk at breakfast?" "Not always." "I, never. If you were licensed by the ceremony of marriage to inundate me with matutinal conversation. I should be rendered at once miserable. A feeling of decency would prevent my showing it; I should suppress it. That suppression would at once de stroy all openness between - us." "You take, I think," interrupted Miss Greatorex, "a morbid view of the duty of conjugal confidence. You would push it too far." "My views are always high. Per haps I do; but that is how it strikes me. Every morning I should join you at the breakfast table with the unspoken ter ror that you were' about to converse. ' vI.think lt possible that you also like to . talk in the train and In cabs?" * "Of course," remarked the young lady, wishing to allay the anxiety of her friend, "you will recollect that the present .discussion is purely academi caf I have never definitely asked you to be my husband." "No," he admitted very handsomely. "I remember that I have admired you for not pushing your advantage. Any day within the last week yoi might have suggested It and Heaven alone knows whether ! should have refused. ?j?fi. It is very Improbable that I should have baen sufficiently firm." "You a??ost tempt me to try." j Mr. ??alkbani ratted Ms+hahd,. I of Today. 5 "Wait," he cried. "B? iel IVs finis this most interesting eonversatioi What ? Would wish to express is thi< trtfrt marriage when one is really i love seems to me to vulgarize the slti ation. It m:>kos, to uso the familia expression, a busing* of a pleasun Or, more ?rcfcr?iely, to make Into vulgar W?i?ess matter what shoul be Piously guarded from any tain t>f business suggestion." "Your objections are, after all, proi er only to the modern marriage?" "I was not." he confessed? "thinkin about the Gardon of Eden. Bdsittes: was in its infamy then-so was nial riagts F?r my part-," lie continu?e1 . *I dislike anything as soon a? it bc comes a duty. ? ?se'd \6 like hunting since "rtrey made me Master I look foi ttrtl to the autumn as a person look forward to Sunday, and yet there wa a time when he doubtless loved golni to church, when it was only a per missable recreation-. Supposing 1 were one af the Ten Commandment that We should go to a ball every Mon day and the opera every Wednesday!' "And you mean that you would die like the duty of being permanently li love with me," said the young lady who perhaps found his remarks be coming too general, "though as i ' temporary-sentimental excursion yoi have not hitherto found it disagree able?" "What I find fault with, ??." he de dared, "that unless one were to marrj you one could not do several thing one would like. For instance, I woulc like very much to take you to India;' "When?" inquired the young lady with somewhat startling definiteness "Not," he replied* "till, say, October India hi the middle of the season you Would not enjoy a blt But I really fear (unless we do get married) the trip is impossible. All the same, 1 should love to explain the Taj to you, and Shah Alina's Mosque at Ahmeda bad-oh, and the Golden Gate at San Francisco; it is tiresome that I cannot take you there without marrying you." "You could take mamma as well, and Aunt Adeliza, perhaps." "That would be different. A superi or plan for those to whom it commends itself, but personally I should not like it so much." Miss Greatorex laughed. Mr. Mark ham left his sequestered seat and took one beside her cn the sof" "Were you thinking," lady, "that you would lil baud?" "I have thought that b thinking of taking it. No maxj?ed?' he. continued terval, "this would be nr would be expected of n: a hen to lay eggs, or Wales to lay foundatior "And then it would cease to please?" "It would then become detestable, and often lately I have pictured my self as riding home in the deepening dusk of a winter's afternoon from hunting either with you by my side or to lind you waiting for mi> at home. When I think of it I nearly take a han som and I come here to lay myself at your feet." "Why don't you?" "For the rensons detailed above. I picture comfort and inconvenience. It would entail an entire change of my plans for the rest of the season." "But if you were not refused?" Mr. Markham started. "Oh, that certainly struck me as an al ternative, but I didn't find it less alarm ing. If I were accepted we should prob ably get married; and how dull for both of us it would subsequently be! What I should really like would be for to come and stay in our present ca pacity at Markham, say, for a year. You would walk with me, row with me, fish with me, hunt with me; I would read to you my favorite bits of my fav orite authors, and you should retaliate with yours. I can imagine nothing so delightful. I have already had you to stay at Markham; but then Lady Great orex and Sir Marmaduke- came, too, and my sister came down to do ho?U'se. We were never alone except now and then for a quarter of an hour of mu tual endeavoring." "Thank you." interjected, with some asperity, the lady. "What I should like would be to have you thus for a time all to myself. You would find me much nicer than you imapine. I have much more 'to' mo, a3 the Yankees say, than you would think." "You are not, in fact, such a fool as you look." Mr. Markham took no notice what ever of this frivolous interruption. "Well," added the lady, "on one con dition I will come. Do not look fright ened; I don't mean to insist on a 'prior engagement' You nerd not promise to marry me. But I will come a whole year to Markham if-if I may bring Lord Mendip with me." "Lord Mendip!" Mr. Markham re leased what he had been holding and laid it back in the young lady's IM with something of the air wherewith one puts down an article that one has been fingering in a saleroom, when one discovers it is marked "Sold." He re sumed his position on the hearthrug, but without again accommodating his back to the mantelpiece. "It Was," he' remarked presently, "very nice of you to inform mc of your engagement in that way. You eau do things, when you try, very gracefully. A more awkward woman might have told me flatly half an hour ago/' "I was going to tell you just now. But you begged me to wait ns you wished to finish your delightful con versation. I concluded that you thought you were shining. After all you do L^t affect'to Ignore your repu tation as conversationalist." .?"I am sure," he said, after the brief est pause, "you would be extremely happy. That Is certainly my wish-that you may be happy as you deserve. Lord Mendlp's hap piness, of course, goes without saying. It is interesting to think that he was I my grandfather's fag at Eton. "He told me that lt was your great* grandfather." "Ah! I think he Was mistaken. My great-irrdhdfathet tiled quite tW'o years bef?'rfe tord Melidip was horn*, and ho Wal hot "at Eton. Where there is any 'disparity of years-" "Between Lord Mendip and myself there is some disparity." "Quite so. But lt is on the right side. I take it Lord Mendip ls not more than SO?" "Scarcely so much," declared the young lady, with admirable temper. "He is but 74." "And he is n peer. It ls better than anything I could have offered you." "As to that, when your uncle dies you will b? ?. duke/' "My ?nele does not contemplate any public bvent so little as his own de cease. : And ho ls a year younger than Lord Mendip. He will doubtless marry ?galh;" "Yes, I thought of that; I took that Into my consideration," the young lady asserted, staring up Into Mr. Markham's face, with an expression he rather failed to understand. There was something unusual also about her voice. Thero was a slight sound behind her. "Here," remarked the young man, looking over her head to the suddenly opened door, "comes Lord Mendip him self to receive ray congratulate is In person." Miss Greatorex leaped to her feet. "Don't for heaven's sake, don't!" she cried In a smothered voice. "It was a ile. I did lt to see if I could shake you at all." Lord Mendip ambled forward with a keen old look lu his faded eyes, and a much "cocked" expression about his half-de&f ears. "Congratulations, eil? Whb hm I .to congrat?late? I think I heard some thing ?bo?t congratulations in person." "Yes, Lord Mendip, I want yours." Mr. Markham sighed heavily. "I hnve Just proposed to Miss Greatorex. and she has been good enough to accept me." "Lord! how intercstin'," cried the old gentleman. I ree'lect your father was my fag at Etcn-I'm talkln,' yer know, of the year 30. By Jove! you're a lucky chap, and I do congrat?late you." Mr. Markham received these felicita tions with some emotion, and sighed again, not less heavily.-Waverly Magazine. QUAINT AND CURIOUS? Whales from 300 to 400 years old aro sometimes met with, The age ls ascer tained by the size and number of the , - * tvhifh increases yearly. Divorces arc rarely ir ever nfuru ui in China; and as for breaking the plighter* troth the man biuds himself by three solemn oaths to commit barl karl if he proves faithless, while the girl by the same oath agrees to de liver herself over to the care of the headsman. But it is usual for them to pass over the "Wood Ling" without catastrophe. A widow in China cannot remarry without loss of reputation, and a girl who has lost her Intended often takes vows of celibacy In his memory. Truly there were giants in Colonial days. One Daniel Leake of Salisbury, N. H., made during his lifetime and was paid for a million shingles. Dur ing the years he was accomplishing this colossal work he cleared 300 acres of land, tapped for 20 years at least 000 maple trees, making sometimes 4000 pounds of sugar a year. He could mow six acres a day, giving niue tons of hay; his strong, long arms cut a swath 12 feet wide. In his spare time be worked as a cooper and he was a famous drum maker. It is a peculiar fact that nearly all monarchs favor some unique piece of Jewelry. William II wears a small bracelet hidden by his cuff. The Czar of Russia has a repeater worth 4000 rubles, which he prizes very highly. Marie Christine changes her rings sev eral times a day. which she can easily do, as she possesses about 275 of them. The lute King of Italy always wore a pcapulary chain of platinum. Kins Leo pold of Belgium is a crank on ancient time-piooes, of which he possesses a One collection. One of the most valua ble specimens is a watch that belonged to Man? Antoinette. The Sultan dons a chain shirt of gold and silver, and his hands are covered with a mass ti rings of all kinds and sizes. Vefitcl ChriRtonine in Japan. Japan has in the course of the last ten years provided herself with a for midable and up-to-date navy, many of the finest of her war vessels having been built in England. The mode of christening vessels in this country is by breaking a bottle of wine over her bows ns the vessel begins to move. In Jnpan the ceremony is of a much more pleasing and romantic character. Over the ship's bow is a large card board cage of birds, which as the ship glides Into the water, ls caused to open. The birds fly off, singing as they go, and this, by the little people of the Flowery Land, is looked on as being a good omen, and as giving a welcome to the ship ns she begins her career. An Accompli-lml CO\T (iioriater. Among quaint advertisements this from an East Anglian paper is special ly good: . "Wanted-A steady man to look after a garden and milk a cow who has a good voice and is accustomed to sing in the choir." We had no idea that the cattle of our Eastern rounties were so highly civil ized as that, remarks the Westminster Gazette. We should like to know whether the cow is Evangelical or High Church, and how the other chor isters take to Its company. In any case, there ought to be no complaints about small congregations at a church with such a novel attraction. HOW A TORNADO STARTS; Tlie Observutiou? of au Eyewitness of a " . Kobraclia. Storm. One br tee most interesting facts conr coming tornadoes is the record of how one began. The account was sent to the weather bureau by one of its ob servers. The following ls au abstract: "By A. H. Gale, Voluntary Observer at Bassett, Nebraska. "Dated, July 28, 1889. "Mr. A. Brown, Ave and one-half ralles northw?st of Johnston, saw the tornado form. He was at work lu his barnyard and noticed it coming across his field ns a light summer whirlwind, such tis' ls noticed oh any still, hot day. Air at the time was calm. Mr. Brown says he was harnessing a horse, and as the light whirl passed him it gently lifted the straw edges of the roof,bf his ?owshed, but had not enough strength to lift his hat, and passed on. At this point it was devoid, of any color, and was mainly noticed by the whirl it made among the grass, straw, and chaff on the ground; he watched its onward movement indiffer ently, and soon saw it gather a color which made it definable. He then paid closer attention to lt and noticed lt becoming black angry and gyrating vigorously, chips, straws, and dirt fell into lt, and were absorbed by lt and a. smoky-veil began to envelop tfie whirl ing column ns it mounted upward. "At the same time a funnel began to lower Itself from a turbulent low-hang ing cloud of ah ?reil of about 40 acres; the column and funnel Soon cdnnected, and with this union the 'thing' took on a terrifying aspect; up to this time ho had no feeling of apprehension. When the whirl passed him he said he was aware of Its passage only by its action on the ground. No color. A black cloud above, In commotion, followed the whirl on the ground, which latter was eight or ten feet In diameter. This cloud was alone, separate, and clear from a higher strata of storm clouds above. When passing his point, and as long as within his line of view, he es timated the speed at ten miles per hour, line of patli east by south. I will Bay here that the entire path from start to end was 18 or 19 miles, and in that distance it made a southing from a due east coUrtic of two and three quarters miles, and ranged from one to three rods in width. Two and one-half miles from Mr. Brown's point it; crossed a large cornfield, and here lt. received much of its coloring matter, j "That the affair was at this time Inj comfortable order was demonstrated i by the shock lt gave the first house 'ti struck as it left the cornfield-Mr. John tit.- 1-Af. <-.. ? ...-J ?J- 4>".v,UTr. Every fence post standing in the track formed a' dam . around which was massed debris of everything imagin able, the whole daubed with mud; it was a picture of desolation and ruin dismal in tho extreme."-Theodore Wal ters In Ainslee's. NATURAL COKE OVENS. Deposits of Fuel All Itcacly for Use in tho Stove. Both In America and Europe numer ous deposits of coko, made in nature's furnace and of better quality than the artificial, have been discovered. Such have boon formed by molten lava burst ing through coal bods. The process of conversion into coke under such cir cumstances is called by scientists "con tact metamorphosis." One of the best-known deposits of this nature ls that at Fungkirehen, In Hungary, where the coal bod was not only penetrated, but aLso largely flood ed over by the lava, which actually also Insinuated itself into the coal strata. In some places pieces of coal are found Intact, imbedded in the lava. Similarly fragments of lava are met with imbedded In the coal. As a rule, however, wherever the lava had come In contact with the coal the latter was changed into coke. Recently in Mexico largo coke de posits have been discovered which b?nr a striking resemblance to that de scribed. The coal fields of Santn Clara have Buffered extensively from the breaking through of larva. In thc clefts are sand and stone imbedded. The volcanic stone forms a thin cover ing over tho coko. Here, too, pieces of lava aro sometimes found in the centre of a coal mass and vice versa. The first discovery was qf a compara tively useless layer of mixed coke and Iava< but later a good coke bed of from seven to ton feet thick was found, safe ly packed in beneath a thin covering of lava, but not mixed therewith. It is usually soft coal which has thus been turned to coke, but occasionally a bed of anthracite coke of about three feet thick is met with. Such a deposit is gencrully betrayed by a glassy lava covering. Occasionally in the same bod there are alternate pockets of coal and COKO, separated only by a clay layer of a few inches thick. Natural-coke is of dark gray color, of fine composition-much closer than oven cpke. It is no more difficult to light than is anthracite coal, and there fore furnishes an excellent fuel, which when burned up loaves only a very small amount of white ashes. Haying nu Enfiler .A?T;iir. Haying ls now a far different affair from what it was half a century ago when nearly nil the work was done by hand with much bigger crows of men than aro now found in the field. Two men will harvest ns large a crop now as half a dozen could then and do lt in much less time. The work is less picturesque than In tho old days, but it is easier and tho crop ls Recured in better condition. It used to tnke a month or moro for tho average fariner, <> get his liny, but now a period of two weeks sees thc greater part of the crop uder cover and in many cases tho .vner of the small farm linds a week sufficient for the task.-Waverly Maga eine. SPANISH GUNS TRAINED . Two of the cannon captured by Dc adorn the east front of. the War, Stat pointing toward the White House. Or cast at Manila. October 21), 1780. Tin monogram of Carlo; IV., end was cai crown of Spain is cast on each. The pi Department, are gilt shields, bearing t) The white wax exported from China Is made by the curious method of us ing minute Insects in its production. These insects are found in brown, pea shnped excrescences or galls attached to an evergreen tree called the "insect tree."' The galls are gathered in May and carried in headlong Hight io the market towns by bearers, who travel at night so that the heat may not force the insects to emerge during thc jour bey. They are then placed on thc "wax tree," which is a stump varying from three to twelve feet in height, with numerous branches rising from the top similar to the pollard willow. The wax insects are made into small i CHINAMAN FASTENING A PACKET 0 packets of twenty or thirty galls, which are inclosed in a leaf of the wood oil tree fastened together with rice straw. These packets are sus pended close to tho branches, under which they hang. On emerging from the calls the insects creep rapidly up the branches to which they attach themselves, and begin forming a coat ing of wax that in about three months attains a thickness of almost a quarter of an inch. The branches are then cut off, and after removing as much of the wax as possible by hand they are put in a kettle of hot water, when tho remain ing wax floats on the surface and the insects finish their term of use fulness ty geing to the bottom. Weapon For Officers' USP. Here we illustrate a combination sword and pistol recently patented in England by B. Keyes, of "Monterey, Mexico. Au officer in battle is always expected to carry his sword in one hand, and if his horse is at all frac tious or hard to guide lie has very lit tle opportunity to defend himself with his pistol, and there has been in stances whau if a revolver was within easy reach an officer could have saved his life instead of watching an enemy aim his gun and fire before the doomed mau could reach the pistol. The nd COMBINATION SWOItD AND REVOLVER. vantage of this combination weapon will therefore be easily understood, aa the officer could easily swing the point of the sword ioward the enemy in fi shorter time than a gun could be ON THE WHITE HOUSE, ?wey ..it Manila, May 1 ?S9SV now e and Navy building, in Washington, ie of them, called the Belicosa, was ? other, called the Gardu?a, bears the st at Seville, February 21, 1777. The .esent mounts, provided by the Navy ie Stars and Stripes. raised arid fired; The arrangement of tlie two weapons is such that the trig ger can b? easily manipulated while the hand is closed over the sword grip; Enllro Fleet Gone. Liberia has had the misfortune to lose Its entire fleet in time Of peace. Tlie gunboat Rocktowri sank in harbor of Monrovia In five and onoV half fathoms of water. The second gunboat, owned by the same Govern ment, the Goronnamah, capsized in St. raul's River, where she had been taken to get cleaned and overhauled. Those two gunboats constituted the whole of the naval power of the Re public of Liberia, and the Liberian admiral In chief has hoisted his pen nant in a four-oared rowing boat, pending the attempt of the President of the republic to acquire another fleet/ -Chilean Times. . Mexican Bread Oven. Tho accompanying photograph shows the manner in which the Mexicans I'1 WAX INSECTS TO THE WAX TREE. used to. build their bread-ovens. Seer at a distance these peculiar contriv ances look like something between ar ast-hlll and a Kaffir hut, and, al though it took several hours to bj.ke the bread in them, they seem to have answered their purpose pretty well Now, however, the Mexican is gettinj an appetite for new things, and hi; OVENS TN" WniCH%MKXrCAN'S BAKE BR EA I precious oven, one of the most irapor tant parts of his whole house, Is on? of thc first things to fall a victim t< tl.e march of civilization. Stoves an now tho rage; and even the very poor est manage somehow to scrape euougl together to buy one. Kidd ?nu llnvnnn of DORS. Havana used to be overrun by own crlcss dogs almost as badly as Con stantinople. The mangy curs we. everywhere about tho streets. Sinct the American* occupation the work ol clearing Havana of these nuisances has l)ecn going on, and now the streets arc comparatively free. In the las year nearly (5000 dogs have been cap turod in the streets and killed by tl? municipal dog-catchers. 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