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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HA TUB, Pres't F. G.FOBD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Undivided Profits } ?110,000. Facilities of oar magnificent New Vault Containing 410 Safety-Lock Boxen. Differ ent Sizes aro offered to our patrons and the public at 93.00 to ?10.00.per annum. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA. Pa ju Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Ha jue, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXVII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 27. 1902. NO. 35. Providence should suro complain Bothered in the sky. This one prayln' for the rain, * That one for the dry ! On this here "terrestrial ball" (Fairest one of any,) Tryin' for to please em all, Never pleasin' any! ^ THE TREASURE OF BY GEORG In 1863-64 a great treasure, to the value of nearly one million dollars in gold coin and bullion, was recovered from the wreck of the Pacific mail Steamship, Golden Gate. I have the story direct from one of the principal men of thc enterprise. During the pe riod which elapsed between the dis covery of gold in California and the establishment of transcontinental traf fic, the custom was to ship coin and bullion from San Francisco to the Isth mus o? Panama, across which it was carried to Aspinwall, now Colon, on the Atlantic. There it would be re shipped to its destination in the Unit ed States or Europe. Thus in July. 1862, the tide-wheel steamship. Golden Gate, was en route from San Francisco to Panama, carry ing more than, five hundred passen gers and a large amount cf treasure. While running along thc west coast of Mexico, about two miles offshore, che was discovered to be afire. She was headed for the beach, and when she struck the fire had so enwrapped her that all on board were forced to fling themselves into the surf. There was a vicious undertow. Two hundred and twenty-eight people were lost, and of the vessel herself, in a short time nothing remained in sight except some of the tall machinery. After the wreck became known it was announced that there had been a million and a half dollars' worth of gold in the treasure-room of the Gol den Gate. The underwriters sent skilled divers to the scene to attempt thc- recovery of this treasure. The divers, after a prolonged ex amination, reported that the vessel had broken in two at the treasure 100m, and that tne gold had been ? buried so deep in the sand, through the combined action of the surf and the undertow, that the recovery of any ponion of it was impossible. The un derwriters thereupon abandoned thc attempt. A number of adventurous spirits in San Francisco, upon learning of this report, determined to make personal examination of the wreck.' This they did in Augvst, 1862, and corroborated /Uie_^nnr^rd^^ij^TM??j?i?^ . ^Tliecondexpeditlo^ although not successful, brovght back reports that furnished encouragement fer a third, which started fron- San Francisco in October, 1863. This expedition sailed In two schoon ers, the-R. B. Potter, a former pilot boat of seventy tons, and the Naiad, a little craft of ihhty tons previously used for collecting gulls' eggs from the Farallone Islands There wer? ten men on each vessel, including div ers and engineers, and there was all the necessary apparatus The diving apparatus was put into shape; the two schooners were moored at a safe distance from the brr akers, the air-pump, with its attendant", was placed In position on th/? launch; and one of the divers, in his submar ine suit, dropped over the side, but did not vanish. ' Since the water was but four fathoms deep and clear as crystal, he coiild easily be seen as he walked along the bottom toward the wreck. A stream of alr-bubblcs rose behind him, and fish and sharks fled from him in every direction. As he approached the wreck and found shallower water with each step, it was soon that the furious surf and the undertow forced him by degrees to stoop until he was crawling along on all fours. When he was directly 'over the wreck he began to ornploy the ingenious apparatus to which the adventurers looked for success. This apparatus consisted of a brass pipe, with a nozzle two and one-half inches in diameter, which was at tached to five hundred feet of hose leading to a steam-pump on board the Naiad. A continuous stream of wa tfr, as powerful as that from a fire engine, was to be forced through the hose; and this, it was bored, would roll the sand to such a statt- that the diver could grad.iaUy settle down Into it and lay hold of the treasure. As soon as he reached the place where he was to work, the diver gave the signal to start the pump. After an hour of expectancy by those above, the diver signaled to stop the pump, and then came to the surface. After being relieved of his belmet, ho drew in a few.breaths of fresh air and reported: "Everything is all right so far, but there is a lot more work to be done than we bargained for. The sand has accumulated ro that where we expect ed two or three feet, there are almost six. Under this is the coal, and in if. WP shall find the boxes of gold, if wc ever find 'hem. "The experiment with the hose worked well." he continued. "I kept playing the nozzle under and about my legs, and sank three feet easily. Put I tell you, there's danger for a diver in this thing. If the steam pump ever steps working wbile a man is deep in the roiled-up sand he will be caught there sure, for the sand will grow solid about him before he can get out." The men had not thought of this before, but they at once saw the truth of it, and arranged that every imagin able precaution should be taken to keep the pump working. Both divers descended on the second day, but after considerable time, re appeared with no more encouraging news than that one of them had got down into the sand to the depth of his armpits without discovering any thing. During the following week the search went on with no success. The divers found that the stream front the hose did not thin the sana enough to enable them to bend down in it and grooe about their feet. Tho stream tend? & hoi? for them to oink in, but lt j t )ENCE. Goin' counter every day. Smllln' now, an' scowlin'; Bun the world one feller'6 way, Sots another growlln'l What a mixture all around 1 j Life of tears an' jestin', Then a little spot o' ground, Daisies-dust-to rest In I -Atlanta Constitution, THE GOLDEN GATE, j E NOBLE. was not wide enough to stoop in. and it was filled with a mixture of sand and water, ready to "set" the moment the stream should ?top. So thc men employed "heir feet as hands, groping about for the treasure-boxes. The time passed thus until Thanks giving day. Then the hopes of the party, who had ventured most of their savings in the enterprise, were very low, but the divers were encased as usual for their regular descents. On this morning one of them remarked: "Boys, I am going to touch the coal today if I have to go my full length for it. We're needing something spe cial to be thankful for." It was thres hours before he signaled to stop the pump. With their expec tations roused by his unusual stay, the ethers waited ea?ony for a signal to send down a bag of such implements as the diver might netd to assist him in raising a box of treasure. A small, hat boat, containing two men and grapnels, ice-tongs and such imple ments, was always kept moored over the spot where the diver was at work. Soon the hopes of those above were destroyed by the announcement that the diver was coming to the surface. The diver, however, had planned a mest agreeable disappointment. He who tells rae this story remembers being struck by the fact that as the diver ascended the ladder to the side of the launch, he used but one hand to assist himself. When he emerged, his friends saw a, package under one of his arms, and this he handed up to those on board. The box, about a foot long, eight inches in width and four in depth, was carried over to the Potter, opened, and found to contain three thousand five hundred dollars in gold coin. To obtain this box the diver had . been obliged to sink himself until the top of his head was just level with the surface of the sand. Feeling some thing hard beneath him, he worked it about for a long time with his feet, until finally, with the assistance of some hooks he had carried down with him, he had raised it to a point where he could get his hand on it. While ^.u-.^^.l-^rx^m* ll ..11111111111111 assurance, which his tenders had never received, no doubt because his life-line had been buried in the firm sand which surrounded the roily hole. Great progress was now made, the next day, with the assistance of grap nels and bags, more treasure .was discovered, and then, day after day, two, three, and even four boxes, con taining* various amounts, were ex tricated from the sand by the labor ol' both divers. With each box they had to mount slowly out of the hole they had bored, and allow the sand to fill In and harden behind them. Elated with success, the divers, as was natural, relaxed their precautions a little, until one of them had a peril ius adventure. Standing over the wreck, he was boring his excavation with the hose and sinking rapidly into the sand as usual. Just as he got down to his shoulders, the butt of the hose was suddenly torn from his grasp by the surf. As he groped about on the sand expecting to fel it, he remembered with a shock that before beginning cperations he had neglected tho customary precaution of attaching the hose to his belt by a lanyard. The whole thing had been washed far beyond his reach. Almost instantly the sand, no longer loosened by the stream of water, began tn harden round him. and he realized the full horror of his situation. So quickly was he embedded that the use of his arms was soon lost; noth ing protruded from the solid sand ex cept his helmeted ' head, hands and wrists. With his life-line buried and his arms powerless, he was unable tc make any signal for relief to those above, who were quite unaware of his dreadful situation. Besides all this, owing to the disturbance created around bim by thc surf and the un dertow, he might as well have been' blind for all that he could see. The pressure of sand on his chest was so severe that he began to lose breath, and resigned himself to the speedy, agonizing death which ap peared inevitable. Nearly exhausted, he felt something touch one of his hands. It was the bight of the hose, which, in washing about over the bot tom, had struck against him-a thing not likely to happen once in a thous and times. Gripping this with his hand, he slowly edged it along, bit by bit, un til finally he got hold of the butt and . the nozzle itself. With great difflcul- : ty he turned the stream of water into ' the sand, and freed first one arra, then .the other, aad gradually the.;whQlo' upper part oi his body. Through the remainder of the day he was prostrated, but he pluckily went back to thc work the next day, and from that time on there was ho lack of precaution on his part. A later incident. In which the other diver figured, indicates well to what a degree the success of the expedition was due to the pluck, persistence abd bard work of.the divers. In raising one large box of treasure from the. hole in the sand, the tongs by which , he. held it slipped, and ripped thc-cover ' entirely off the box while it was yet a f. : from tho top of the hole. But hy the greatest care and pains he finally succeeded in resting it on the level sand outside the hole with out spilling a single coin. It was hauled up to the boat in a bag, and found to contain nearly thirty thous and dollars. Of course the weight of ther^ boxes in the mixture of sand and water was far less than it would have been in the air. Uninterrupted by othw tnetdtnt* the work of recovery went on until the first of January, when the increase of surf, with the change of season, made further operations impossible. The last box of treasure was extricated on Christmas day, and although regular trips below were made daily during the week that followed, no more boxes were brought to the surface. .'Then the men stopped their work and left the spot, fully intending to repeat the operations in the following year; but during the winter the party scattered far and wide, and weie never reunit ed. Many schemes for obtaining the rest of the treasure, by dredging, building breakwaters or inserting coffer-dams, have been talked about, but no one has yet recovered a dollar of what i the San Francisco sallormen failed to lift; nor has any one produced a scheme which, in the opinion of the man who told me this story, will war rant the outlay of the capital neces sary to secure what is left of the treasure of the Golden Gate.-Youth's 1 Companion. CAME OF GAMES. Gotr 1? ot Onco tho Mont Simple and Mont Dimcult. True, there is a point of view from which it may be regarded as an ex- i tremely simple game, the very sim plest of all the games with a ball and a club. The player's object is i simple and singlo to the point of sim ple-mindedness and singularity. One might say; to put a small ball, in a ? small hole with the fewest possible strokes. But so are the object of the highest ambitions, thc guiding stars ? of careers the most perplexed and i devious. It is true, likewise, that all tl e countless strokes a srolfer m'ikes ! are resolvable into vince kinds of stroke-driving, approaching and put- < ting. But Mr. Everard, in a lecture unsurpassed for truth and brilliancy by any in all thc extremely clever lit ' erature of golf, has declared that to i make those three strokes right one must have "art, science and inspira- ? lion." From the moment the ball leaves i the tee, whether it be topped, pulled, or sliced, or whether, struck in proper I lashion a trifle below thc medial line. ! and urged forward with an exquisite < free lashing out of the wrists, it take ' flight as with wings and seek its true ] course as with a mind and purpose of 1 its own, until it drop intp the cup with a tintinnabulation that no louder I clang or paean ever surpassed in ito 1 suggestion of victory and consunnna- 1 lion, there is no foreseeing what per plexity or temptation to carelessness or over-conhuence -- will present. Not ( twice, off thc tee ground and the put ting green, will the possibilities and probabilities of the stroke be quite the same. In the lie, thc wind, the not to be reckoned by any known , mathematics. Then, as the match approaches its dicadfully quiet climax of defeat or victory, the responsibility may grow positively . ^palling. The very delib eration which, impossible in most games, is so characteristic of this, so far from lessening the strain on one's nerves, undoubtedly heightens it. Cue has time to estimate the emergency, to realize the crisis. Not the fiercest raliy at tennis, not the longest and timeliest home run at baseball, not the most heroic rush at football, requires a more rigid con centration of thought and energy, or a more dauntless courage, that the Hick of a putter that sends the boll crawling on its last little journey across the putting reen, when the putt is for the hole, and the hole means tho match. There is not a quality of mind or body-I will not except or qualify at all-no, not one, that life itself proves excellent which a circuit of the links will not test.-Atlantic Monthly. QUAINT AND *' CURIOUS. A transatlantic steamer, carrying what is called "a full mail," usually brings two hundred thousand letters and three hundred sacks of newspa five hundred and odd sacks for other places. Mice canot exist on Papa Little, an island in St. Magnus bay, on the west of Shetland. To test the truth of this statement several mice at va rious times were brought there, but the soil, proved so uncongenial that they soon died. Professor Albert Michelson of the department of physics, University of Chicago, has invented ?. machine so delicate as to be able to measure the width of a hair. By its. means it is said he has discovered that matter of any kind is no moro solid than water, save in degree. A cat recently took up its abode and nursed its litter of four kittens in the fork of a tree, 28 feet from the ground in the garden of Alderman Peace's residence at Castle Hill, High Wy combe, England. The kittens were removed by the gardener, but the cat speedily took them up the tree again to their strange birthplace. "Policemen-' at. High Wycombe," says the London Globe, "are now .served out with housemaid's dusters, and "these homely weapons arc to be used against the -walls wherever ur chins, suffering from cocoethes scri bendi' have chalked up maxims, re torts and the pleasant ironies of the street. If there is a wag among the youth of Wycombe he will write on the walls 'A policeman's life is not a happy one' Imagine the bobby's feel ings who has to wipe that out." An ingenious chemist has made the claim that the average human heiiif? is worth about (18,300 from thc chemical standpoint. His calculations are based on the fact that, the human body con tains three pounds thirteen ounces of calcium; and calcium just now is worth $300 an ounce. If thu; calcium could only be extracted, what a lasting would become to their families. If physicians should discover a way to extract this $18,300 worth if ??ieiiini from us poor m'ortal" Operations would immediately become as numer ous and popular as they <*?VrS during thfl ippendWMe ?ftift? i BY the courtesy of The Century we are enabled to reproduce enc of the most interesting articles upon the very perri*; uent questifi of Mic extermination jo? the mosquito which has nppenred hi. print for some time. The Century hiw. taken'an active interest in this Impor" tant matter, having published lu (lit-j forent numbers severn! nrticles there on, one from the pen of Dr. L. 0. How ard, the Entomologist of the Depart ment of Agriculture, who is rt reiidwitJjjb uithorlty upon mosquitoes. The article,' which we reproduce. Is entitled "A Cam paign Against the Mosquito," written by Henry Clay Weeks, and lt Is preface^ by a statement from Dr. Howard, who summarizes the efforts which are beln^ made all over the conn tr j' to relieve communities from so annoying nnjjl lange rous a pest. Dr. Howard, In pan, says: / , ^ "It is "my linn opinion tli.it, Wide spread as the interest in mosqulto-es* termination seems to be at present, rt ls not a temporary interest, but "the beginning of a great and intelligent crusade. * * * New Jersey, .a State which has suffered a great economic loss from tho abundance of mosquitoes, ! ls giving attention to the mutter not) only in isolated communities as com munity work, but also by State action, [lie Legislature having passed a bill to promote investigations, but, unfor tunately, without au appropriation, fj.-ist summer tho towns of Summit and South Orango carried on community work which ls to bo continued tills ? summer. The citk-s of Elizabeth. Newark and Jersey City are. I believe, to do some drainage work with this end In view. * * * Tlio Donni of Health af Nev Orleans has taken up the rant tor, and is doing Intelligent imd saris-* factory work. Nashville, Tenn.; ttoihe, lia.: Talladega, Alu.; Winchester and Norfolk, VII., and a number of other pinces aro looking Into tho matter with i view to immediate effort, and smaller communities all over the country, North, South, East and West, either have tho matter under consideration! .r are already beginning work." OPERATIONS AT OYSTER BAY, L. I, . DY HKXBX CLAY WEEKS. With no claim to be acting under! Dthei' -t}l???m*&m^m*m*MggBgm&B?&?!& ting forth nothing as now In field br laboratory, there has been going for ward to a demonstration, on Lougj Island, since January, 1001, thc move ment of which this article is the sub-1 Jeer. The purpose is to describe what ils probably (lie li rs t attempt by a commu nity to exterminate mosquitoes on a large scale in this country. * * * The Center Island work was the outcome of a hurried reconnaissance of a terri tory of about thirty square miles made by the writer during throe days lu Oc tober, 1900, at tho request of some resi dents who had previously invited Dr. Howard to visit tho region and state whether, in his view, relief was pos sible. Ills opinion was strongly fa vorable. * * * But tho whole terri tory was not then ripe for action, and there was an opportunity of molding h 0 s a i s i A y a MAP OF CENTER ISLAND AND VICINITY, OYSTER BAY, LONG ISLAND. public sentiment or.?y in a small part of the large aroa, namely, Center] Island, in Oyster Bay Harbor. Center Island, of Irregular shapo, about two miles long and half a mlle wide, was peculiarly adapted for relief work, though there were conditions that made it a difficult held. It is connected with a famous breeding re gion by a narrow strip of land, along which, ns well as over tho intervening water, it was feared mosquitoes would bo borne. A largo, sodden marsh ran through the middle, wherein wore nu merous marsh holes, always excellent breeding grounds. Shore ponds were numerous, where high tides would leave water behind barriers of sand, Which water would become brackish by rainfalls and seepage. As a whole the island was a rare breeding place, and ifs reputation for mosquitoes was well earned. * * * Of course UK- enemy*! lissumo, though or civ*A.,variety ticktocks; H?^or rather ?he, tot. lt M only " J fernale that bites-secas blood whcr ever lt cnn he found. She tvvks water for oVlpoKitioii UK Industriously ns do the root* of a tree for nutrition, and with a ileteriniiuition ?is Irresistible. Her Ingenuity almost bailies human skill, and one has to meet lier on the same grounds ol' persistence, giving close attention to natural Instincts, times mid conditions. It would be VIEW OF THE PART OF TI] useless to attempt to enumerate the 1 str?nge places mosquitoes seek for laying their eggs-from high-water ?auks and clogged roof-gutters to wells i hundred feet deep; from a hole In a tree holding only a few spoonfuls of (rater, discarded tinwar?', or the foot prints of animals, to a quiet pond of [nany acres. Willi the knowledge thai water ls absolutely required for breeding, it in volved no great brilliancy to say thal (Tutet tnust bc denied Ibo enemy. lier breeding places must be abolished by i braining marshes or pools, and water barrels and the like must be done away with.. Knowing nftso that in the larval and pupal ?tutes (viggl irs) air ls re quired for breathing, it Avas equally patent that if a thin film of oil was placed on their breeding places, des truction would result for want of air. It is the insistence of operations under these ideas that insures success. So tlie work has consisted of the em ployment of drainage and petroleum. But while that appears ?imple, lt en tails careful planning and exactness In execution. Drainage is the per manent cure, petroleum the temporary expedient, but each is essential In its sphere. Thc former must be employed thoroughly, the latter slightly. It is not necessary, as some have intimated, to consider the depth of a pond, but only its superficies. The Ulm of fuel petroleum does the work. Evrht oil-stations were established on tho island, where ono or two bar rels were placed on platforms in thc shade of trees, and at these the p? trolier would till his krapsack sprayer and sally Perth for the enemy. Ten barrels were purchased, but n:iiy ?VV were required throughout i tic islaud, and now that so many points are per manently reclaimed by drainage and the tilling in <?r poola, probably one barrel, or at must (wo, will be sulli cient tili? season. Only live compfcfc tours of tile islaud were found neces sary from May 1 to October 1. though applications were Often required nt sp?cial points. As it was impossible to do all the permanent work before tho breeding season began, both reme dies were worked co-ordinately. Ttys was done in order to show best results. To leave ?ny brawling places untreat ed would have thrown discredit on successful work at other points. AT MEADOW, APPROACHING THE R?SSING. Surveys were fust taken for the iLrnlhage work, to ascertain the entire ^catchment of Hie worst point, tm m ely, ? Great Meadow, BO as to pinn th?; mun k|jbeSr bf dltohsis ue?cietu-y tu hold. UK trater in case of a beary rainfall. Too much excavation results in a waste of money; too little in a flooding of the reclaimed area and injury to crops. Levels were taken for the ditching, and lt was found that only one inch of descent could bo had in sixty feet, though this was sufficient, owing to the great care tn grading. A squad of about twenty-five men was engaged for many weeks on the ditching and diking. Where no dikes were required the soil from the ditches was used in tilling the marsh-holes and streams, or was graded back at the edge of tho uplands, leaving no holes for water to settle In. * * * Tho po?*?; formed perfect breeding places, and the general sodden condi tion of the marsh made ideal breeding condition*. Karly in the season (before .May li tU?> pools were found to be alive willi larvae, and unless one had ab solute confidence In the processes of extermination, a glance Into one of them would have destroyed all hope CE DIKE ONCE A SAND-BAR. uf success. While tlie excavation was progressing, the p?troliers were set at work, and bj' care and close supervi sion scarcely an Insect got to wing. Of the few that did, lt was found that near them a little water surface had been overlooked, which showed two things: that mosquitoes do not fly far from their native place, and that most careful work ls essential for complete results. Thc writer has been informed that, in other years, to drive along the bor ders of thin marsh was a perilous un dertaking for man and beast, but he walked over it many times during and after the work, and did not en counter a single mosquito, Another source of great trouble bad heretofore been the brackish ponds rog;^j?T(u^hcshore ut '.nurt by nxtrn Illili tldOH. . Ixl tlwi,.< ca'.SCS" tne"T,,n'n TVT.-T cn rrtt-f* - mit- -ot -rrx-1 cavating an opening, and allowing the water to rut) off at low tide, which would carry off a stream black with larvae. In the finish of work at such points an automatic tide-gate had to be Inserted In the opening, which is set somewhat below tlie level of the bottom of the ponds. A number ol' these ponds were so thoroughly dried out that no breeding occurrotl in them, and ono could walk through the former beds and about their vicinity, where formerly lt was well-nigh impossible. The automatic tide-gate lets out th?; water as soon as the tide has fallen below its level, and closes when the tide begins to ris<\ so that in these shore ponds, as well as in larger marshes the inner ditches must be largo enough \> hold the water which has collected between tides, without its overflowing ibo land. Dikes are built along the shore line to exclude the THK PKTBOLIRB AND AN OIL STATION. Jhles, and the gates are set in at tho dike lille. * * * The results of this skirmish have been very pronounced, so much so that the committee having the work in Charge says of it lhat "it was in every way successful and gratifying, and that although the season of 11)01 was unusually favorable to the breeding ol' diese pests, yet Center Island was practically entirely relieved from tnos quitoes, and. for the first time, at al most all hours of the day and evening, we were able to enjoy the usc of our piazzas and lawns without thc annoy ance of those pests. The results achieved by the use of fnel-pctrolenu? were simply remarkable, and we were astonished to lind how little it was necessary to use to accomplish the results desired." "A Mun IK living." A remarkable eas?' of suicide is re ported fruin the State of Victoria. Aus tralia. Au old Imperial soldier at Violet Town, aller swallowing a large quan tity of strychnine, went to the local flagpole and hoisted the Union .lack to half-mast. His little girl, untieing the action, asked the reason. "A'llUill is ?lying," he explained. En; he ha?l time lo fire a salute tlie pois?ui worked and he fell dead. A Till Did lt. A Paris thief, while picking a lady's pockel recently, pricked himself so se verely with a pin thal happened to be in her dress thal he uttered a cry of pain, wliifli I"<1 io his imm?diate: ar rest. The sum of ?'.>."io in cash was found upon him. T?e surgeon is not always super eUtaui when \\H GUI? lila patl?atoi HE BUILT A NEW NOSE. A CHICACO PHYSICIAN'S REMARK ABLE EXPERIMENT. Tho Loss of a Child's Natal Orean Rem. ?died by Grafting Her Mille ringer In Its Pino* - Operation Provotl a Com plete succei? - The Process l-'xplaincd. This ls the story of thc nose a Chi cago doc:o.' built. He began to build it some weeks ago when a little girl twelve years old whose nose for the most part-had made way with itself presented her diminutive person at the Cook County hospital for the pur pose of recounting her disaster to the surgical masters therein and of secur ing their magical assistance in be witching a substitute into existence. The only evidence of a nose which the twelve-year-old had at that time was an aperture in her face On each side were the vestiges of the nasal walls and wings. Today the noseless maiden is no lunger noseless. A flesh and blood or gan much resembling the missing part, nourished by the same blood that courses through every other part of her physique, is proudly occupying thc once deserted site for a little girl .5 nose. It has a bridge, nostrils, proper ly outlined walls, and adapts itself charmingly to purposes and breathing without causing its owner any dis agreeable ?ensat:ons. The price paid by the heroine for the new article was thc small finger of her left hand. That was the build ing material for the doctor in erecting the new nose. The little finger of her left hand was planted in the nasal crifice. Its tip was cut off, the finger inserted, and held in place by means of a plaster of paris cast for two weeks. The cast was then removed, the finger severed from thc hand, trim med up, and sewed to the rudiments of nasal flaps to form the nostrils. The hand was then neatly trimmed diagonally to avoid as far as possible Hie appearance of deformity, so thal, despite its lack cf one finger, it pre sents a symmetrical appearance. Although perfectly satisfactory, as far as it goes, the work is not entirely completed and will probably require several additional operation* in order to achieve the perfect symmetry sought. The surgeons who had the noseless , little maiden in keeping were Dr. W. E. Schroeder, who performed the op eration; Dr. Wen strom, head resident ^ physician of the Cook County hospital, , and several others. * The first step to be taken in cr??t- t ing the new nose was the preparation . of the little girl's face. This was j bathed for four or five minutes with j. #?aon. wac and afcsrile .V??S?, tallowed ? "l'y . .o. . y>*t-l? -alephol, - Ijl?txlorl?e ot , mercury and othrr chemlcrtVu, -?ii*1*, again with sterile water, rendering it , thoroughly clean and antiseptic. . The edges of the nasal cavity Were , then "freshened," made raw to prepare , them for contact with the growth to j the finger. Thc skin was cut away ( and an incision made along the free . border. A vertical incision extending , up along the nasal bones >vas then . made, the skin drawn back and ths j tip end of the nasal bone laid bare. This was also to prepare a ht place | for the little finget to grow after it j had beer scrted. ( The nasal cavity was now packed T with gauze. This was a precaution t taken against the access of blcod tc , tuber portions of the body, particular- j ly the lungs, where pneumonia or ( some other disorder might resu't in < consequence. i Before the operation was started ( the little finger of the left hand had j to submit to some treatment. Thc 1 presence of the nail at il tip made | lt unavailable for service. The finger i ?v as hence amputated just above the nail. The end was cut off obliquely and an incision made alcng the sid-.-? of the remaining part, in order that 1 its blood vessels could come in con- ' tact with those of the nose and enable it to grow into thc nasal cavity. The incisions left the ski" hanging loose in flaps on the upper and lower sides of the linger. The edges of the ! supper skin flap were trimmed to fit ; Into the angle formed by the incision 1 made over the tip of the nasal bone. The finger was now ready to be grafted into the orifice. The tip of the linger was placed at the upped end of the nose and sewed, or, as thc surgeons says, "sutured," into place with silk thread. The first suture was passed deeply through the bone at the last finger joint. Additional sur Uies were passed uniting the upper Lkin flap of the finger with the skip of the nose and cheeks, while the low er skin flap was attached to the mu cous membrane on thc iuterlor of the nose. Finally the hand was dressed, bandages being placed round the arm and head. The finger was now in place. It was now necessary that it be made perfectly rigid. The least movement could undo the entire value of the operation, and make successful grafting impossible. For this purpose it was fixed in a plaster of paris cast, which extended about thc shoulders, neck and head. Thc little noseless maiden was now hidden- from view, so far as the up- i per portion of her- body was con cerned. Thc cast obliged her to hold her hand to tao spot where her nose "ought to be," and necessitated her being fed {brough a tube- She main tained this position for. two weeks, during that time not being able to use ho? nos? even for breathing purposes. During this period of apparent pas sivity, while she lay motionless in her bed, the liveliest and most novel activity was going on in her small frame. Little blood vessels were shooting out in unheard of ramifica tions and directions, meeting with stranger currents In the vicinity, swiftly greeting them, and uniting with their forces in friendly co-opera tion for the perfect irrigation of the I system. The blood vessels of the lit tle finger poured their red streams into the vessels of tho face, the cur rents of the fare cr-.-pt up to meet those of the nose. By the end of a fortnight they had established per- j feet ly harmonious i elations with each ether and set in operation a sys^mut io nrder Pf communication. It was now time for the second op ration, severing the little finger from, ts old associations and completely, dapting it to the new service await ng it. The patient was put to sleep, .'his was done before the cast was emoved, to prevent any possible aoveraent on her part cf the liberat d hand and arm. The cast was now sawed off and the ittle finger of the left hand, which, tad been sewed to the nasal cavity at he previous operation, was ampu atcd at the middle or "metacarpal" oint. Henceforth it was a nose. lt was trimmed up and sewed to the ragmentary wings of the nose so as o induce a proper contour. Tlie nose ias pricked with a needle to test the .lood supply. It bled, indicating icalthy activity. The hand was then neatly trimmed nto shape and sewed as the final enture of the operation. The little girl finds her finger In its low sphere of life a most convenient nd serviceable member. It submit? ;racefully to the acts of breathing .nd sneezing, and as time progresses iromiros .0 assume greater and great r comeliness. The surgeon's knife ias not yet attained the lightning apidity in its metamorphoses i's that tf the fairyland wizard's wand, and loes not pretend to be able to cast uch an enchantment over even the irettiest little finger in the world ar, 0 enable it instantly to convert itself nto a nose of marked beauty. The little girl is elated over the ransformation of her visage and cou pled the other day to one of the hos lital physicians that her mother was 'tickled to death."-Chicago Tribune. PRODUCTS FROM BONES. Jtillzatlon of livery Blt or Material for Varied Purpose*. The economy which is practised In he average boarding house has be nnie proverbial, but it is extravagance 0 the staudard of economy practiced it a "bone mill." The chief product rom bones ;s glue, and among other naterials which are obtained from hem arc soap, glycerine and fertiliz Ts. Nothing is wasted. Even the nost economical boarding house has 1 few parings aud husks to throw iway. There are no parings and husks u the.disposition of bonos. The first stage in the utilization of iones is that of cleaning them. When jrought to the glue factory they are ipt to be covered with more or less lried flesh and bits of foreign matter. \fter being carefully culled over by vorkmen and broken by crushers hey are soaked in a weak solution of uluhuric acid. From the soaking auks the benes emerge white and ap parently perfectly clea" but still redo ent with a fai jrvadlng odor. They ire then placed in what are termed ligester*. or at? m tanks, where. o-f ler toeing ^ubjectod to a. preiuvuTC ot Ble'a'm ' lor several ?iourn, a -spigot its r-pened at the bottom of the digester ind the liquid glue is drawn off. The grease of the bones, being lighter, is Jrawn off Inst and separated from the first product. The liquid glue is evap ;ratcd to a ftmigth of 45 percent gelatine, a portion of which is per nitled to harden for commercial use, is glue, and a part is refined and sold for gelatine for table use. The grease is drawn oft into cooling .auks, where, in its crude state, it is nade into scouring scips. By a pro cess of refining and the admixturo of ? egotable oils and perfumes, toilet icaps are produced. The spent liquors vhich are run off from fro boiling :oap are utilized for thc manufacture if glycerine. The bones which are aken out of the digesters are ground ip for fertilizing purposes, and the iirly water in which they are cleansed s boiled down and made into manure, l'iom the beginning to the end of the process not even an ounce of material is wastod.-New York Tribune. A Lucky Knftlgn. Lieutenant-Commander A. B. Wil lies, whose family lives in German town, has written an interesting letter home from his ship, the Iowa, which is cruising in South American waters with thc south Atlantic squadron. The officer tells how last month the squadron was halted in the harbor of a little southern city that was much pxcited over a lottery drawing soon to he pulled off. Ah ensign on a sister ship of the Iowa bought for $1 a one tenth chance at the $100.000 prize, and then, out of idle curiosity, attended the drawiug. There was considerable rig marole for a time, and a dark-skinned native posted on a board a number the winning number. The ensign looked at his ticket and it was the same number as that which had won. He could not, he said afterward, speak. He had to walk out into the air. His delight was indescribable. The next day one of thc officials of the lottery brought to him aboard his ship a bag containing $10,000 in gold. As he is poor, and as he is also married, he thinks the money will come in very handy.-Philadelphia Record. Cuckoos ami Larks. Cuckoos are birds whose actions are a standing puzzle to naturalists. As is well known, the cuckoo lays its eggs in thc nests of other birds. When they hatch the young cuckoos throw out the young of other species and get all the attention of the old birds for themselves. Recent experiments show that the instinctive desire of the young bird to eject its foster-brothers from the nest is much stronger than has been believed. Two cuckoo eggs wer placed in the sanie nest, and the fight that ensued after the chicks were hatched reads like an account of champions wrestling. The instinct is a most singular one, and was man ifested before the birds were 20 hours old. Proverbial early rising by the lark, expressed in the phrase, "up with the lark," is denied by an eminent orni thologist, who claims that whereas the greenfinch is up at 2 o'clock in the morning in summer, the blackbird at 4 and thc hedgerow sparraw half an hour later, thc lark does not appear until after 5.-Chicago News. Th?? Thine Thar Puzzled tho Patient. "You may be thankful for your ex cellent ?onstitution. It has pulled you through many a spell of sickness." "But, doctor, if I have such a blamed strong constitution, why am I alway?